Noteworthy new publications from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf).
“Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Missiles: Status and Trends,” updated February 20, 2008.
“Water Infrastructure Needs and Investment: Review and Analysis of Key Issues,” updated January 23, 2008.
“Russian Energy Policy toward Neighboring Countries,” updated January 17, 2008.
“North American Oil Sands: History of Development, Prospects for the Future,” updated January 17, 2008.
If carbon markets are going to play a meaningful role — whether as engines of transition finance, as instruments of accurate pricing across heterogeneous climate interventions, or both — they need the infrastructure and standards that any serious market requires.
Good information sources, like collections, must be available and maintained if companies are going to successfully implement the vision of AI for science expressed by their marketing and executives.
Let’s see what rules we can rewrite and beliefs we can reset: a few digital service sacred cows are long overdue to be put out to pasture.
Nestled in the cuts and investments of interest to the S&T community is a more complex story of how the administration is approaching the practice of science diplomacy.