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June 4, 2024
How Can STEMM Do A Better Job of Caring for Its Caregivers?
Caregiving is a nearly universal human experience, but it’s not often thought of as an issue with implications for our nation’s science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) enterprise. A new report… Read More -
May 7, 2024
To Fix Health Misinformation, Think Beyond Fact Checking
When tackling the problem of misinformation, people often think first of content and its accuracy. But contering misinformation by fact-checking every erroneous or misleading claim traps organizations in an endless game of… Read More -
January 24, 2024
To Discourage Science Misconduct, Encourage “Delight of Discovery”
A top research center, the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, plans to retract or correct numerous scientific papers amid allegations that the authors falsified data by manipulating images. In Issues, the science… Read More -
January 16, 2024
The Question Isn’t Asset or Threat; It’s Oversight
As part of a research group studying generative AI with France’s Académie Nationale de Médecine, I was surprised by some clinicians’ technological determinism—their immediate assumption that this technology would, on its own,… Read More -
April 18, 2023
Episode 29: To Solve the AI Problem, Rely on Policy, Not Technology
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, growing increasingly accessible and pervasive. Conversations about AI often focus on technical accomplishments rather than societal impacts, but leading scholar Kate Crawford has long drawn attention to the… Read More -
March 14, 2022
Episode 10: Creating a “High-Minded Enterprise”: Vannevar Bush and Postwar Science Policy
G. Pascal Zachary, Vannevar Bush’s biographer and editor of a new collection of his writings, talks about this remarkable polymath, the background behind his landmark report, and his surprising legacy for the information age. -
May 16, 2023
Episode 31: Race, Genetics, and a “Most Dangerous Myth”
The concept of distinct races came from European naturalists in the 1700s. It’s now recognized as a social construct, rather than a biological classification. Nonetheless, genetics researchers sometimes use race or ethnicity to… Read More -
Fall 2022
Humanizing Science and Engineering for the Twenty-First Century
Dr. Nettrice Gaskins is a widely recognized African American digital artist who creates works that combine images of individuals with an artificial intelligence (AI) application that synthesizes patterns. When her larger-than-life portraits… Read More
