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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
NASA is heading back to Venus. What do scientists hope to discover? https://t.co/UxkgZNPgPn
— The Week (@TheWeek) June 12, 2021
With $171 billion marked for R&D, President Biden’s proposed 2022 budget hands a starring role to applied science. https://t.co/TpjPL9M41Q
— News from Science (@NewsfromScience) June 8, 2021
The sales of American DNA equipment to Xinjiang highlight how difficult it is for the U.S. to control the ways in which its technology is exploited by authoritarian governments who may use it for repression and surveillance. https://t.co/eJMhxxRJVf
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) June 11, 2021
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is leveraging his nearly four decades in Congress to lobby hard for additional funding to plug a major hole in the Artemis program https://t.co/ujAaMJ51Uj pic.twitter.com/NOHIEQDIcq
— POLITICO (@politico) June 11, 2021
Russia threatens to leave International Space Station program over US sanctions: reports https://t.co/rT8AuQPZTf
— Live Science (@LiveScience) June 9, 2021
This century-old technology could be the key to unlocking America’s renewable energy future https://t.co/G42pmxXcrT pic.twitter.com/Csy2DzYhQ9
— Popular Science (@PopSci) May 27, 2021
Opinion: NASA is planning to return to Venus. It’s about time. https://t.co/1TGhmSfk7A
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 9, 2021
Column: California’s stem cell program found a disease cure, but it’s being blocked by a biotech firm https://t.co/QKu6vrENYO
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 24, 2021
The Biden administration has scrapped Trump-era bans on TikTok and Wechat. The administration plans to conduct reviews aimed at assessing national security risks with technology tied to China. https://t.co/X7YVL4Y7G2
— The Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor) June 11, 2021
Jeff Bezos will be in space for about 11 minutes. But from 2001-2009, the extremely wealthy could pay to spend more than a week at the International Space Station. https://t.co/LNyACgbP08
— Slate (@Slate) June 9, 2021
Electric cars and renewable energy may not be as green as they appear. Production of raw materials like lithium, cobalt and nickel that are essential to these technologies are often ruinous to land, water, wildlife and people. https://t.co/lMNX1BQjge
— The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) May 6, 2021
House Democrats and Republicans introduced a sweeping series of bills on Friday intended to check the power of U.S. technology giants, marking a new chapter in their yearslong efforts to hold tech companies accountable. https://t.co/fywrWIz9ae
— The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) June 11, 2021
With its new guidelines, the world’s largest stem cell society has opened the door to lifting a long-standing restriction on laboratory efforts to grow and study human embryos. https://t.co/TM0zf1C4Qy
— News from Science (@NewsfromScience) May 31, 2021
From battery storage technologies to lab-grown meat, investors are rushing to put money behind renewable energy producers and companies fighting climate change https://t.co/flfiQHKwbp
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 25, 2021
The Senate has passed a roughly $250 billion bill aimed at boosting the U.S. technology sector’s ability to compete with China, a priority shared by the Northwest’s Democratic and Republican senators alike.https://t.co/TNNgRlWd4J
— The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) June 9, 2021
With tools ranging from artificial intelligence to gene editing, researchers are revamping agriculture for an uncertain future. https://t.co/3KxKZDduaI
— Discover Magazine (@DiscoverMag) June 12, 2021
Most recently, the U.S. government shared its latest findings on UFOs this week. It found no evidence of alien technology in flying objects, but hasn’t ruled out the possibility entirely.
Read more here: https://t.co/zo54FIfc5Q
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 6, 2021
Bitcoin is already an aging technology—in some ways the dinosaur of cryptocurrency—and central banks may lose in the race against whatever comes next, writes FP’s @michaelphirsh.https://t.co/n1xbih7hjw
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) June 1, 2021