Weekly News Roundup: ‘Twas the Night Before Jan. 20

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• Where have we seen this before? A President’s Guide to Science, in video form.

• A holy union of incentives and science: A car key that disables cell phones when the car is in use.

• Will the hordes of laid-off techies be driven to crime?

• All this carbon offsetting and greening is nice and all, but the elephant in the room is still coal.

• Any chemists want to weigh in on what type of drugs can be manufactured at home?

• When Madoff strikes, no sustainable food business is safe.

• And finally, the perfect Christmas medley: electronics meets art meets taut consumerist criticism.

December 19th, 2008 Tags: , , ,
by Melissa Lafsky in Discover's Science Policy Project, The 2008 Election | 10 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

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