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.