• American Journal of Bioethics Top 20 Essays of 2008. 
• Fight Climate Change – Take the UN Youth Climate Pledge. Youth Climate Pledge was developed, created, and refined by youth from all over the world who use this pledge as a foundation for their climate change efforts. Now you can show your commitment to climate change too by using your personal, collective, and institutional power to bring the pledge from paper to the real world. Take the pledge! 
• NPR's 'Here and Now' broadcast of 'No Nukes' - Fear of nuclear weapons seems like something out of the Cold War, but the nuclear threat has actually grown since then, so much so that even foreign policy hawks like former U.S. Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz have started arguing for a nuclear free world. So, has the moment come to make the pipe dream real? We'll speak with Jan Lodal, former senior Defense Department and White House official in the Nixon, Ford, and Clinton administrations. He and co-author Ivo Daalder, a Brookings Institution Fellow who's been advising Obama on foreign policy, have written an essay laying out the route to a world without nuclear weapons.
• The Energy Challenge Series from New York Times. Articles in this series will periodically examine the ways in which the world is, and is not, moving toward a more energy efficient, environmentally benign future
• Digital Quality of Life: Understanding the Personal and Social Benefits of the Information Technology Revolution. Click here to read the report. (From ITIF)
• The NAS wants to know from you, “What Matters most to you in Science, Engineering, and Medicine? Follow this link to take the quick survey.
• Peace & Security Initiative - 2009 National Security and Non-Proliferation Briefing Book - The 2009 National Security and Non-Proliferation Briefing Book is an effort to address the most important and pressing proliferation and national security challenges that the Obama administration will face.

Student Pugwash USA (SPUSA) is an educational, nonprofit organization that strives to add a dimension to scientific study that goes beyond formulas and figures. Activities encourage young people to probe the reasons for scientific advancement and the implications of technology on citizens' everyday lives. While examining all sides of an issue, SPUSA increases students' ability to think independently about the issues that affect society -- issues that range from international conflict to environmental protection, from genetics research to civil rights. SPUSA focuses on the interplay that lies at the juncture of science, technology, and public policy.