Think Tank Quickies (#218)
- Think tankers step in to defend Donald Trump on foreign policy.
- AEI's annual forum has big-name guests including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla head Elon Musk.
- Eric Kanoy Siefring, a former lobbyist at Heritage Action, chairing new Computer Science Education Coalition.
- For President Obama's last State of the Union (SOTU) address, White House used a tool created by World Resources Institute (WRI) for carbon pollution information.
- British book retailer Waterstones has a book table titled "think tank." (h/t Jo Swinson)
- The growing tribe of think tanks in India.
- CNAS annual conference on June 20 to feature Vice President Joe Biden and SecDef Ash Carter.
- Think tanks spending big bucks honoring lawmakers?
- In 2014, 19 of the 20 universities in the world that produced the most highly cited research papers were American. What about think tank papers?
- Are there more retractions these days in think tank reports?
- Think tank (Economic Cycle Research Institute) admits it was wrong in predicting 2011-2012 downturn.
