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9 Jul 2021, 9:17 am
-boycotted Caribbean island nation into the select group of the United States, Germany and Russia that produce vaccines with efficacy of more than 90% - Novavax, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Sputnik V. [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 4:51 pm
I am also attempting to schedule meetings with some of our government leaders, to see if I can at least get some acknowledgement from Washington that this is a problem that needs to be dealt with.See previous IPBiz post: http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2011/01/sputnik-moment-again-and-again.htmllink: http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2011/06/too-many-lawyers-with-technical-degrees.htmlAnd recall the recent issue with reduced labor force… [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 5:52 am
It was founded in response to the surprise Sputnik launch in 1958 and fathered the Internet somewhere along the way. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 9:46 am
Legislators don't generally like bureaucrats making a power grab for their turf.A reader who alerted me to this outrage also forwarded a letter to AG Greg Abbott from Sputnik, the legendary chair of the Texas Motorcycle Rights Association:Honorable Greg AbbottTexas Attorney GeneralDear Sir:It has been brought to my attention that you have set Oct. 23rd as the Deadline to hear remarks about allowing the Department of Public Safety to bypass the legislature and establish a road block … [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 9:55 am
That speech, he said, was a “Sputnik moment” for China, in particular scientists who convinced the leadership that this demonstrated the importance of space. [read post]
23 Mar 2022, 3:30 am
As Maggie Doherty recounts in her engaging book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, Bunting, a microbiologist and educator, first conceived this “messy experiment” in “a national war room populated almost entirely by men”: she served on a Cold War-era committee formed by the National Science Foundation after the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik to study education in the U.S. and steer more resources and students… [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 12:42 pm
” The President compared the current need for innovation and budget reforms to the space race against the Soviet Union in the 1960s, calling this a “Sputnik moment” He began the 62 minute speech by addressing issues relating to partisanship, the economy, education, infrastructure (roads/trains and technology), health care, the deficit, foreign policy and the military. [read post]
29 Jul 2021, 1:01 am
The impetus to establish a space program was the launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. [read post]
30 May 2012, 12:00 am
And President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address went so far as to challenge American researchers to view this moment in time as 'our generation’s Sputnik moment'—the opportunity to use science and innovation to drive the economy, create new jobs, and compete with emerging economies, such as China and India. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 3:09 pm
I am also attempting to schedule meetings with some of our government leaders, to see if I can at least get some acknowledgement from Washington that this is a problem that needs to be dealt with.See previous IPBiz post: http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2011/01/sputnik-moment-again-and-again.htmlOR, of more recent vintage:check out NBC from two years ago-->A NBC Nightly News story on 3 April 09 discussed how an IBM Fishkill employee [Frederic (Rick) Clark] was offered the opportunity to keep… [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 9:48 am
For more information on the video topics where research help may be needed, see here: * Delimitation of space, ownership rights, custom of peaceful passage (Soviets Lunch first artificial satellite – Sputnik in 1957) * Value of human exploration vs. robotic * Jurisdiction and control (Gagarin – first man in space) * Non-military use of space, commercialisation; first proto-commercial communications satellite; up until this time, space activities were related to… [read post]
21 Oct 2021, 9:03 pm
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority announced that it would not approve the Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine for use. [read post]
1 Feb 2009, 2:25 am
The American investment in science during the Cold War (and especially after Sputnik) were probably beneficial on the whole. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 7:13 pm
., 69 AD3d at 597; Sputnik Rest. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 7:30 am
From Sputnik to SunShotThe energy secretary, Steven Chu, was publicly using the phrase “Sputnik moment” two months before President Obama picked it up in the State of the Union speech to describe the need for a national effort to improve competitiveness in a technical field. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 10:43 am
TheInternet also got help from Sputnik! [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 10:26 am
This is our generation’s Sputnik moment. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 11:18 am
Hillary Clinton gave a speech last week on Sputnik's anniversary covering space policy. [read post]
7 Apr 2022, 4:22 pm
. ● “The EU Ban of RT and Sputnik: Concerns Regarding Freedom of Expression” by Columbia Global Freedom of Expression researcher Igor Popović on EJIL:Talk! [read post]
3 Aug 2019, 4:00 pm
All Sputniks had a spine so rigid it was as if the Soviets were scared of their propaganda being openly read. [read post]
