NAS "State of Science" 2026 address

I watched the webcast of the NAS State of Science address by outgoing NAS president Dr. Marcia McNutt . (I did not watch the panel discussion afterward, so sorry if I missed critical pieces.) A few thoughts on this: The intro music was a very classy baroque string quartet. Hard not to think of this scene from Titanic . The main theme was about ways to revitalize US science, and there were six main…