New York Times: President Obama helped the National Academy of Sciences celebrate its 150th year of service to the country by giving a speech at the group`s annual meeting today. There were some pretty nice laugh lines, including:
[P]art of whats made the Academy so effective is that all the scientists elected to your elite ranks are volunteers - which is fortunate because we have no money anyway.
There was a subtle dig at lawmakers for whom political stances matter more than data:
[M]ore important than...