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• 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

• 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

• 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

  Economics

  William E. Spriggs

  In the year 2020, under the tutelage of the novel coronavirus, we learned that many things we assumed could be ignored because we thought they were solid “givens” are really shaky and… 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

• April 16, 2020

  Where’s Congress? Don’t Just Blame Trump for the Coronavirus Catastrophe

  M. Anthony Mills, Robert Cook-Deegan

  How in the world did it happen? The United States has the highest rating in the world on the Global Health Security Index, which assesses prevention, capacity for detection, preparedness and planning,… Read More

• September 9, 2020

  How to Lead Innovation in a Changed World

  Melissa Flagg, Paul Harris

  In borrowing its title from the 1945 policy framework created by Vannevar Bush, the Endless Frontier Act currently before Congress seeks to increase federal government investment in science and technology to “combat… 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

• 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.

• 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

• Fall 2020

  Debating Fish Pain

  Aaron Van Neste, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Ben Diggles, Brian Key, Culum Brown, Deborah Brown, Howard I. Browman, Ila France Porcher, Ivan Darío Vargas Roncancio, J. Roger Jacobs, James D. Rose, John Sanbonmatsu, Lynne U. Sneddon, Monica Gagliano, Robert Arlinghaus, Steven J. Cooke, Stuart W. G. Derbyshire, Thomas Klefoth

  In “The Great Fish Pain Debate” (Issues, Summer 2010), Troy Vettese, Becca Franks, and Jennifer Jacquet rightly state that in Germany the assumption that fish feel pain resulted in court… Read More

• September 11, 2020

  The Endless Frontier Act Could Foster Technology Job Growth Across the United States

  Gregory Tassey

  After years, even decades, of neglect, the United States may finally be starting to take economic growth policy seriously. The Endless Frontier Act (S. 3832), a bipartisan bill designed to scale up… Read More

• March 25, 2020

  Pandemic Science and Politics

  Daniel Sarewitz

  For the past 30 years, I have tried to make sense of the interactions between science and politics, especially the challenge of making decisions under conditions of uncertainty and disagreement. Why—despite huge… Read More

• Summer 2020

  The Great Fish Pain Debate

  Troy Vettese, Becca Franks, Jennifer Jacquet

  Do fish feel pain? For over 50 years, this question has been the focus of multiple scientific careers and consumed countless hours of research, debate, and reflection. But a different and related question has received far less attention: how and why did fish pain come to be a contentious scientific question in the first place?

• Summer 2020

  The Metro Project

  Chris M. Forsyth

  

  Underground public transit systems play a pivotal role in the day-to-day functioning of cities around the world. They also contribute to a city’s unique visual identity. Captivated by the overlooked beauty of… Read More

• Winter 2020

  How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry

  Mark W. Neff

  STEF at 75 America’s globally preeminent university research enterprise is constructed on two bedrock principles of self-governance. The first is autonomy: academic scientists should be left free to determine their own research… Read More

• Spring 2019

  Pending Memories

  Adrian Fernandez

  

  The latest series of photographs by Cuban artist Adrian Fernandez portray the backside of billboards situated in surreal landscapes. The complex structures and unexpected shapes are suggestive of Russian constructivism, but the… Read More

• Spring 2020

  Between the Leviathans

  Paul Harris

  When Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited Washington, DC, in September 2019, he made one of his major policy announcements at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s headquarters. Citing NASA’s “inspirational campaign… Read More