Science Debate 2012: Innovation and the Economy
The leading U.S. science and engineering organizations developed a list of 14 science policy questions facing the U.S. in 2012. You can read these questions–and the Presidential candidates’ answers–at ScienceDebate.org. For each of the Science Debate 2012 questions, we’re going to provide you a selection of the authoritative and unbiased resources of the National Academies to [...]
State of the Union Highlights
In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, the President touched on many important issues facing our country. To learn more about those issues, we are pleased to offer authoritative resources from the National Academies in the areas of public policy, science, engineering, and medicine. Remarks of President Barack Obama in State of the Union Address [...]
Resources to Inform a Fiscal Future from the National Academy of Sciences
The plan offered by the President’s bipartisan deficit commission, released last Wednesday, has drawn reaction across the political spectrum. Want to better understand how consistent this plan is with long-term fiscal stability? We provide a practical framework to assess budget proposals like this in Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future, a report released in January 2010 [...]
New Books Covering Health And Medicine, NASA, and Industry And Labor
There were four books new to the NAP site this week, including Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease, a publication by the Institute of Medicine. Featured Publication Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease (prepublication) Many people naturally assume that the claims made for foods and nutritional supplements have the [...]
Nine new books: emergency care, obesity prevention, engineering innovation, and more
Nine new publications—both pre-publications and final versions—hit the website last week, and as usual, we’re rounding them up here. Stay tuned to Notes From NAP. In the next few weeks, we’ll be writing about some of our most popular publications in addition to these weekly lists of what’s new. Featured Publication Regionalizing Emergency Care: Workshop [...]
New Publications: Near-Earth Objects, Engineering, Zoonotic Diseases and More
Happy new year! Things have been a little bit quiet around here with the winter holidays, so we’re listing out all the new publications for the last three weeks in one fell swoop to get the year started with a bang. Also, don’t forget to check out the YouTube video that accompanies Sustaining Global Surveillance [...]
