To make note of our newest member of the left sidebar blogroll, this is a post about Prometheus. Prometheus is a science policy weblog co-authored by a consortium of policy analysts, engineers, scientists, and STS types at or near or connected to the University of Colorado at Boulder. The blog is hosted, specifically, by the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. Their conversations are generally high-level and well-informed; the debate and dialogue doesn't seem to devolve into ad hominem very often, if ever; their approach strikes me as collegial and rigorous at the same time; and their subject is of course of great relevance to all science bloggers.
Here's a note on their basic premise:
Because problems and decisions are not bounded by any discipline or set of disciplines, science and technology policy research is necessarily integrative across the physical, social, and biological sciences (as well as other fields, including the humanities).
There are several recent posts of interest, including one about a Wired interview with Rep. Jerry McNerney, "the wind engineer who pulled off a huge upset over Dick 'I hate endangered animals' Pombo in California's 11th District," another one about Al Gore as icon, not climate change as the issue, and today's post about climate change initiatives at the state and federal levels (that the former are starting to exist, and the federal aren't, at least not for some time).
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