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• Summer 2021

  Think About Water

  

  An Ecological Artist Collective Think About Water is a collective of ecological artists and activists who got together to use art to elevate the awareness and discussion of water issues. Created by… Read More

• Summer 2021

  How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality

  Roger Pielke Jr., Justin Ritchie

  The integrity of science depends on its capacity to provide an ever more reliable picture of how the world works. Over the past decade or so, serious threats to this integrity have… Read More

• Summer 2021

  “We Really Should Be Talking About an Ethics of Policymaking, Not Just the Bare-Knuckle Politics of Policymaking.”

  R. Alta Charo, William Kearney

  Illustration by Shonagh Rae From stem cells and cloning, to CRISPR and chimeras, lawyer and bioethicist R. Alta Charo has been a key player in informing policymakers and the public on the… Read More

• February 12, 2021

  The Post Pandemic World

  We asked 17 experts to write about life after COVIDPublic HealthNancy TomesWhat H. G. Wells and the late nineteenth century’s public health revolution can teach us about the potential for great disruptions,… Read More

• April 10, 2020

  A Global Strategy for Preventing the Next Pandemic

  Leah R. Gerber

  As pretty much everyone knows by now, COVID-19 probably jumped from an animal host to humans in an animal and seafood market in Wuhan, China. But that’s just the immediate cause. Although… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Socrates Untenured: The Social Media Problem Is Worse Than You Think

  James Owen Weatherall, Cailin O’Connor

  In 2016, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), the organization responsible for much of the Russian state-sponsored social media campaign documented in the Mueller report, created a Facebook group called “Being Patriotic.” In… Read More

• Spring 2021

  Science for Hyper-Partisan Times

  Jeffrey Warren

  If the 2016 presidential election began an era of especially unbridled political rancor in the United States, North Carolinians were ahead of the curve by November 2010, when elections awarded Republicans the… Read More

• June 8, 2021

  Customized Energy Futures

  Chris Gearhart

  Go anywhere in the United States today, and most people’s relationships to energy are pretty much the same. We drive cars to work and to the mall, and we power our devices… Read More

• Winter 2021

  Agricultural Cycles as Allegories

  David Hicks

  

  DAVID HICKS, Construction (Rose), ceramic and stainless steel, 2016 David Hicks creates ceramic sculptures inspired by nature and industrial agriculture. Growing up in California’s Central Valley, he was attracted to the… Read More

• Spring 2020

  The Changing Temptations of Science

  Stephen P. Turner, Daryl E. Chubin

  The changes in science over the past century have outpaced society’s images of science, of what sort of activity it is, and of what scientists are and do. Have these changes also outpaced science’s capacity to assure its integrity and quality?

• Winter 2021

  Duyi Han: The Saints Wear White

  Alana Quinn

  

  An outpouring of creative responses have given voice to suffering, loss, and trauma caused by the pandemic. For Duyi Han, the creative director of Doesn’t Come Out, a design studio in New York… Read More

• March 9, 2021

  Robots

  Mark Hagerott

  In the 1918 flu pandemic, human-centric systems maintained their centrality in social and economic life, because there was no alternative to intelligent humans. Under COVID, in a desperate attempt to mitigate short-term… Read More

• March 9, 2021

  Health Departments

  Leana S. Wen

  The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that protecting the public’s health is important for the security and prosperity of the country, so I hope the United States begins to invest in public health… Read More

• March 9, 2021

  Science Communication

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Long before COVID-19 arrived, the public knew that some behaviors minimized transmission of respiratory viruses—thanks to years of work by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, school nurses, vigilant parents,… Read More

• March 9, 2021

  Public Universities

  Kumble R. Subbaswamy

  The nation’s sudden shift to remote teaching that started in March 2020 has called into question foundational assumptions about teaching and learning—and indeed the entire collegiate model. Now, with every residential college… Read More

• March 9, 2021

  Public Health

  Nancy Tomes

  In 1923, barely five years after the end of the World War I and the great influenza pandemic that killed at least 50 million people worldwide, the British author H. G. Wells… Read More

• Winter 2021

  The Path to Better Health: Give People Their Data

  Jason Cohen

  As any family doctor can tell you, the greatest potential for improving health care isn’t discovering new treatments for disease, it’s getting patients to do the things we already know work—exercising, quitting… Read More

• Winter 2021

  Scents and Sensibilities

  Barbara Kiser

  Sometimes we seem to be all ears and eyes. Language is drenched in the audiovisual: we feel blue, admire visionaries, find that an opinion resonates. Yet around us seethes another dimension of… Read More

• September 2, 2020

  Social Media Wading Into COVID-19 Notification

  Tom Burroughs

  Apple and Google are collaborating on a system that will let public health agencies alert people by smartphone when they might have had significant contact with someone with COVID-19—and for those who… Read More

• Summer 2020

  Socrates Untenured: New Wine and New Bottles

  Robert Frodeman

  Society will be changed by COVID-19. But how and to what degree? Rather than being a shock the size of 9/11 or the Great Recession, COVID-19 may be destined to become a… Read More

• Winter 2021

  Innovating “In the Here and Now”

  Lisa De Bode

  Nadia Andrade, a 31-year-old critical care nurse practitioner who has volunteered in war zones, thought she was prepared when she entered Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center last April. When a landmine went off… Read More

• Summer 2020

  China as Mirror

  Carl Mitcham

  It has become common for Americans to demonize China as a dragon of economic and viral infections that needs to be taught a lesson. The contemporary American love-hate relationship with China is thrown into new relief when it comes to science and technology.

• March 10, 2020

  The Virus That Tells Us Who We Are

  Richard Cooper

  Virtually every country in the world has been forced to take a difficult standardized exam over the past two months. Although the exam question—what would happen if you faced the emergence of… Read More

• Summer 2020

  Around Nature

  Juanli Carrión

  

  Juanli Carrión, OSSVLC (Outer Seed Shadow: Valencia) (2016–17). Five hundred years ago, the Spanish government and private investors funded a commercial trip led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano that would… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Feedlots

  Mishka Henner

  

  Mishka Henner is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Manchester, England. He is known for prints and videos that appropriate image-rich technologies, including Google Earth, Google Street View, and YouTube. He described his… Read More

• July 1, 2020

  Do-It-Yourself Pandemic: It’s Time for Accountability in Models

  Guru Madhavan

  The responsibility of building scientific models has much in common with the responsibility of sitting in the exit row on an airplane. One can enjoy the extra leg room of creating imaginative… Read More

• Fall 2020

  Trucks of Morocco

  Stefan Ruiz

  

  Stefan Ruiz, Truck No. 8, Morocco, 2001. Almost 20 years ago while on an assignment in Morocco, photographer Stefan Ruiz came across a series of trucks and was captivated by their… Read More

• May 15, 2020

  The Public Health Epidemic Exacerbated by COVID-19

  Colleen Galambos

  There is a killer among us. It’s a silent, unnoticed killer that reaches into bustling cities, suburban communities, and the countryside. It reaches people of all classes and backgrounds. What is this… Read More

• May 6, 2020

  A One Health Approach to Preventing the Next Pandemic

  Laura H. Kahn

  China and India have much in common. Both are developing countries with populations of over 1 billion. Both have live animal markets. Both have issues with public sanitation and hygiene. Both are… Read More

• Fall 2020

  The Return of Science and Technology Assessment for Congress

  Timothy Persons

  The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into stark relief the nation’s urgent need for timely, reliable scientific information. Though information on the pandemic is in ample supply, less readily available is reliable analysis… Read More