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• Spring 2022

  The Subversive Beauty of Fallen Fruit

  Shirley Alexandra Watts

  

  David Allen Burns and Austin Young, Event Horizon: Darkness is a Temporary Condition, 2019, installation view, commissioned by Kuntshall 3.14 for the city of Bergen, Norway. Halfway through Agnès Varda’s film … Read More

• Spring 2022

  Tissue Series

  Lisa Nilsson

  

  Lisa Nilsson, Female Thorax (detail), 2013 Quilling, the art of manipulating small strips of paper into elaborate designs and objects, is believed to have originated in ancient Egypt, although its precise origins… Read More

• Spring 2022

  Mathemalchemy

  Mathemalchemists

  

  Mathemalchemy, 2021, mixed media What happens when a fiber artist meets a world-renowned mathematician? In a word: mathemalchemy. In 2019, the mathematician Ingrid Daubechies, who the New York Times dubbed… Read More

• Fall 2005

  Cyberinfrastructure and the Future of Collaborative Work

  Mark H. Ellisman

  One of the most stunning aspects of the information technology (IT) revolution has been the speed at which specialized, high-performance tools and capabilities originally developed for specific research communities evolve into products,… Read More

• Summer 2007

  Archives – Summer 2007

  SUZANNE ANKER, Laboratory Life, Digital print edition of 46 with 5 artist’s proofs, 13 x 19 inches, 2007. Laboratory Life Suzanne Anker, who served as moderator for the recent online symposium… Read More

• Spring 2022

  Sculpting Science

  Kiley Snider

  

  Contagion, 2021, ceramic, 13 x 8 x 9 inches Ceramicist Kiley Snider is inspired by nature and organic forms. A recent graduate of Arizona State University, she jumped on the opportunity… Read More

• Spring 2022

  Banning Lethal Autonomous Weapons: An Education

  Stuart Russell

  Lethal autonomous weapons systems—commonly but misleadingly known as “killer robots”—are weapons systems that, once activated, can attack objects and people without further human intervention. With more than a dozen nations working to… Read More

• Spring 2008

  Strengthening Nuclear Safeguards

  Charles D. Ferguson

  As events in Iran and elsewhere illustrate, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is confronting a crisis in its ability to detect nuclear weapons programs and to safeguard peaceful nuclear programs. This… Read More

• Summer 2007

  Full Disclosure: Using Transparency to Fight Climate Change

  Elena Fagotto, Mary Graham

  Congressional leaders are finally working seriously on long term-approaches to counter climate change. But all the major proposals leave a critical policy gap because they would not take effect for at least… Read More

• Fall 2006

  From Brain Drain to Mutual Gain: Sharing the Benefits of High-Skill Migration

  David M. Hart

  The news on high-skill migration (HSM) is good and getting better. More highly skilled people are moving across borders for education and work than ever before. Judging by figures on graduate-school applications… Read More

• Fall 2004

  Protecting Public Anonymity

  M. Granger Morgan, Elaine Newton

  People in the United States have long enjoyed an expectation of anonymity when traveling or performing everyday activities in most public places. For example, they expect not to be recognized, or to… Read More

• Summer 2005

  A Reality Check on Military Spending

  Charles V . Pena

  For fiscal year (FY) 2005, military spending will be nearly $500 billion, which is greater in real terms than during any of the Reagan years and surpassed only by spending at the… Read More

• Spring 2006

  Forum – Spring 2006

  Gilbert E. Metcalf, John A. Alic, Richard B. Stewart, Jonathan B. Wiener, Ian Parry, Leon Clarke, Nicholas Pinter, Robert S. Young, Robert Bea, Robert H. Meade, James K. Hammitt, Daniel J. Dudek, Paul Runci, James Dooley, Ed David, Douglas Lilly, Jesse Ausubel, Robert J. Naiman, Joshua J. Latterell, Kurt Yeager

  In “Rethinking, Then Rebuilding New Orleans” (Issues, Winter 2006), Richard E. Sparks presents a commendable plan for rebuilding a limited and more disaster-resistant New Orleans by protecting the historic… Read More

• Fall 2005

  Patagonia dreaming

  Tundi Agardy

  There once was a world so lush with life that colonies of animals stretched as far as the eye could see. Of course this is not news. We’ve had glimpses of this… Read More

• Fall 2005

  Even Universities Change

  Stuart J. Feldman

  U.S. research universities are going to change, and education leaders would be wise to begin now to direct that change. This will not be easy, but they have the advantage of being… Read More

• Spring 2005

  Law and the Public’s Health

  Lawrence O. Gostin

  Public health law is experiencing a renaissance. Once fashionable during the Industrial and Progressive eras, the ideals of population health began to wither in the late 20th century. In their place came… Read More

• Spring 2005

  Healthy Populations Nurture Healthy People

  The fall 2004 decision by NBC to introduce a new TV program dramatizing the fight against emerging disease threats might be taken as a sign of rising glamour for the public health… Read More

• Fall 2004

  Science, Politics, and U.S. Democracy

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Political manipulation of scientific evidence in the interest of ideological convictions has been a commonplace of the U.S. democracy since the end of World War II. In 1952, the incoming secretary of… Read More

• Winter 2005

  Underage drinking

  Mary Ellen O'Connell

  Alcohol use by young people is dangerous, not only because of the risks associated with acute impairment, but also because of the threat to their long-term development and well-being. Traffic crashes are… Read More

• Summer 2004

  Is Human Spaceflight Obsolete?

  James A. Van Allen

  During the past year, there has been a painstaking, and painful, investigation of the tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven crew members on February 1, 2003. The investigation… Read More