Science And Tech In President Obama's SOTU

Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk, posted on February 13, 2013. I’m Steve Mirsky. On this episode: “Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.” That’s the President, of course. In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama talked about climate change, energy and manufacturing technology innovation and STEM education, that is, science, technology, engineering and math. Here are the approximately 12 minutes of the speech that dealt with those subjects: