{"id":27105,"date":"2016-06-22T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/white-house-issues-report-on-president-obamas-impact-on-science-and-tech"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:16","slug":"white-house-issues-report-on-president-obamas-impact-on-science-and-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/white-house-issues-report-on-president-obamas-impact-on-science-and-tech","title":{"rendered":"White House issues report on President Obama\u2019s impact on science and tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/white-house-issues-report-on-president-obamas-impact-on-science-and-tech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2009, President Obama pledged to \u201crestore science to its rightful place.\u201d He said, \u201cWe will not just meet, but we will exceed the level achieved at the height of the space race, through policies that invest in basic and applied research, create new incentives for private innovation, promote breakthroughs in energy and medicine, and improve education in math and science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, the White House released an Impact Report listing 100 things that Obama has made happen with the support of many people across research, policy, education, and, yes, maker culture. Here\u2019s the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/06\/21\/impact-report-100-examples-president-obamas-leadership-science\">Impact Report<\/a>. A few examples from the list:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/06\/21\/white-house-issues-report-on-p.html\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/06\/21\/white-house-issues-report-on-p.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, President Obama pledged to \u201crestore science to its rightful place.\u201d He said, \u201cWe will not just meet, but we will exceed the level achieved at the height of the space race, through policies that invest in basic and applied research, create new incentives for private innovation, promote breakthroughs in energy and medicine, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,2229,31,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-mathematics","category-policy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67128,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27105\/revisions\/67128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}