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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast,

Science Talk, posted on 13th, 2013.

I'm Steve Merski.

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.

Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs in manufacturing.

After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs

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