Dear subscribers,
I’m writing this note in the airport on the way back from our annual Science on the Hill event, which was held in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. It’s a wonderful event put together in partnership with our corporate cousins at Nature, meant to put working scientists in the same room as lawmakers and policy people.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen very often. Too much legislation that shapes scientific research or regulates scientific issues is written without input from scientists, and as a result, we’re left with nonsensical policy. So I was very pleased to see the excitement from young congressional staffers in the room; one aide to a powerful senator told us how great it was to talk to working researchers and that he hoped he could do it more often.
Bottom line, it’s easy to get down about our government, but there are smart people there who want to do the right thing, so don’t lose hope.
In that spirit, I share below some of my most hopeful bits of Scientific American content from the past two weeks!
Chase wonder and catch truth,
David
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