Search Results 200 Results Found for Fall 2014 Imagining the Future City Rider W. Foley, Darren Petrucci, Arnim Wiek A rich blend of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis can provide decisionmakers with the various perspectives they need when making choices with long-range consequences for cities around the world. An ashen sky … Read More Spring 2014 A Survival Plan for the Wild Cyborg Rinie Van Est In order to stay human in the current intimate technological revolution, we must become high-tech people—cyborgs—with quirky characters. Winter 2014 Water Edward Burtynsky Internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s latest body of work, Water, explores the course, collection, control, displacement, and depletion of this vital natural resource. The exhibition is the second initiative… Read More November 12, 2013 Disclaimer Issues in Science and Technology is published to inform public opinion and to raise the quality of private and public decision making by providing a forum for discussion and debate. Accordingly, the… Read More Spring 2014 Reconstructing the View The landscape has been a source of artistic exploration and contemplation since the earliest cave drawings. Represented in paintings and photography as well as film and the tourist’s snapshot, a variety… Read More Summer 2014 Forum – Summer 2014 Robert Atkinson, Cong Cao, Richard P. Suttmeier, Charles F. Manski, Miles Parker, Mike Bithell, Patrick Lin, David W. Kreutzer, Eville Gorham, Michael H. Klein, Mike Coburn, Lan Xue, Denis Simon Evidence-driven policy In “Advancing Evidence-Based Policymaking to Solve Social Problems” (Issues, Fall 2013), Jeffrey B. Liebman has written an informative and thoughtful article on the potential contribution of empirical analysis… Read More Spring 2014 Archives – Spring 2014 University of Texas at Dallas professor John Pomara’s work reflects an interest in the role that human error plays in technology, focusing primarily on the current state of painting and picture… Read More Fall 2013 Rethinking “Science” Communication Prajwal Kulkarni More than two peer-reviewed articles are being published every minute of every hour of every day for the entire year. This staggering number should change how we think—and talk—about both science and scientists. Spring 2013 Making Fuel Cells Work Noriko Behling For more than five decades, fuel cells have been heralded for their potential as a cost-efficient, environmentally friendly means to convert readily available chemical energy into electric energy. So far this… Read More Fall 2014 An Archeology of Knowledge Mark Dion In recent years, much thought and research has been devoted to the visualization of information and “big data.” This has fostered more interactions with artists in an attempt to uncover innovative and… Read More Winter 2014 My Brain is My Inkstand Drawing as Thinking and Process My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process is an exhibition debuting at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, that brings together… Read More Winter 2014 From the Hill – Winter 2014 Congress passes budget deal, launches frenetic appropriations activity After a contentious few months that saw a two-week government shutdown, a narrowly-averted debt crisis, and continuing politicking over the size and shape of… Read More Summer 2013 What’s Art Got to Do with It? Kevin Finneran For the past eight years Issues has been including art in addition to its written articles. There’s nothing unusual about including illustrations and other types of visual material to accompany articles in… Read More Winter 2013 Forum – Winter 2013 Brian Richter, William Happer, William R. Moomaw, Travis R. Doom, William Fulkerson, Steve Levine, Charles K. Ebinger, Susan Rundell Singer, Richard N. Zare, Richard Nelson, Julia Lane, David Michel, Edward A. Tiryakian, Cora Marrett Energy basics Bruce Everett (“Back to Basics on Energy Policy,” Issues, Fall 2012) reviews the history of government energy policy with discomforting accuracy. One can only hope that the article will… Read More Fall 2012 Global Bioethics: Hopes, Fears, and New Voices Deborah Gardner, Jennifer Liu During the 1990s, James Grifo, a physician and researcher at New York University, had been working to develop a technique to help treat certain kinds of infertility. Although in vitro fertilization (IVF) … Read More Winter 2013 Changing the Way We Account for College Credit Amy Laitinen For centuries, the United States has been the envy of the world in terms of its higher education system. But now we are largely coasting on a bygone reputation, obscuring the… Read More Winter 2010 On the Trails of the Glaciers Fabiano Ventura On the Trails of the Glaciers is a multidisciplinary project, combining photography and science, to study the effects of climate change on the glaciers of the most important mountains of the world.… Read More Summer 2012 Mother of Invention Edward Tenner High-handed corporate monopoly and high-minded national treasure, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was a unique project of this country’s pragmatism and for decades the envy of the world in extending … Read More Winter 2011 Archives – Winter 2011 DAVID MAISEL, The Lake Project 3, Chromogenic print, 29 × 29 inches, 2001. Image courtesy of the artist/Haines Gallery. The Lake Project 3 Photographer David Maisel’s early work, such as the… Read More Spring 2011 Forum – Spring 2011 Kenneth P. Green, Victor Van Lint, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Lenny Mendonca, Michael P. Ryan, Arnold M. Lund, Annuska Perkins, Susanna Hornig Priest, Matthew E. Kahn Technology innovation: setting the right policies In “Fighting Innovation Mercantilism” (Issues, Winter 2011), Stephen Ezell has identified a truly vexing problem: the proclivity of important countries (notably China) to… Read More Winter 2011 Making Stories Visible: The Task for Bioethics Commissions Adam Briggle, Meera Lee Sethi A little before lunchtime on December 6, 1957, when the United States made its first attempt to match the triumph of Russia’s Sputnik 1 by launching its own Vanguard TV3 satellite into… Read More Winter 2011 Time for Climate Plan B William B. Bonvillian Policymakers in the United States and elsewhere have assumed for 15 years that putting a price on carbon would be an effective strategy for addressing climate change. Nations would price carbon emissions,… Read More Winter 2010 New Bedfellows JD Talasek During the past few decades, a growing amount of mental real estate has been devoted to discussing art and science, and the level of attention increased markedly in 2009 as we marked… Read More Fall 2010 Goddam Humans Kevin Finneran The social sciences have long been considered the runt in the litter of the science family, if not the bastard child of wild conjecture with deluded mathematics. Broad-minded practitioners of the physical… Read More Summer 2010 Book Review: Futurama Martin Wachs It goes without saying that most Americans love their cars. Yet today there is a great deal of debate about the appropriate future role of the automobile. For decades, cars have been… Read More Fall 2010 Technophilia’s Big Tent Edward Tenner As the effects of climate change and other environmental stresses become more apparent, some technological prophets are alarmed, while others are more sanguine than ever. Jared Diamond has gone from Guns, Germs, … Read More Summer 2010 Bringing U.S. Roads into the 21st Century Stephen Ezell Information technology (IT) has transformed many industries, from education to health care to government, and is now in the early stages of transforming countries’ transportation systems. Although many think that improving a… Read More Summer 2010 A Cell’s Life Norman Fost Here’s a simple statement most Americans would agree with. If tissue removed during an operation is about to be thrown out with the garbage and has no identifying information, it should be… Read More Winter 2010 Perennial Grains Food Security for the Future Jerry D. Glover, John P. Reganold Colorful fruits and vegetables piled to overflowing at a farmer’s market or in the produce aisle readily come to mind when we think about farming and food production. Such images run counter… Read More Spring 2010 Book Review: Job prospects David M. Hart In this peculiar little book, six prominent economists—the two listed authors plus four distinguished commentators, all writing separately—take stock of the possibility that expanding international trade in services, particularly service imports to… Read More Previous Next
