Some noteworthy new reports of the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf).
“Environmental Impacts of Airport Operations, Maintenance, and Expansion,” April 5, 2007.
“What’s the Difference? — Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data,” April 10, 2007.
“Vulnerability of Concentrated Critical Infrastructure: Background and Policy Options,” updated January 26, 2007.
“Polar Bears: Proposed Listing Under the Endangered Species Act,” updated March 30, 2007.
“The first rule of government transformation is: there are a lot of rules. And there should be-ish. But we don’t need to wait for permission to rewrite them. Let’s go fix and build some things and show how it’s done.”
To better understand what might drive the way we live, learn, and work in 2050, we’re asking the community to share their expertise and thoughts about how key factors like research and development infrastructure and automation will shape the trajectory of the ecosystem.
Recognizing the power of the national transportation infrastructure expert community and its distributed expertise, ARPA-I took a different route that would instead bring the full collective brainpower to bear around appropriately ambitious ideas.
NIH needs to seriously invest in both the infrastructure and funding to undertake rigorous nutrition clinical trials, so that we can rapidly improve food and make progress on obesity.