Technology innovation: setting the right policies; Climate plan B; Reducing access barriers; No free energy; Telling science stories; Reversing urban blight.

Obama proposes essentially flat 2012 R&D budget; Scientific integrity guidelines released; Climate negotiations inch forward in Cancun; Patent reform moves ahead; Food safety reform bill finally passes.

Kevin Finneran
Washington’s Media Maze.

Paul Citron
Medical Devices: Lost in Regulation

John M. Logsdon
John F. Kennedy’s Space Legacy and Its Lessons for Today

Barney Cohen
Why Don’t U.S. Women Live Longer?

Climate politics (Review of The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming)

Green urbanism (Review of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change)

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