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November 22, 2021

Episode 1: Science Policymakers’ Required Reading

Every Monday afternoon, the Washington, DC, science policy community clicks open an email newsletter from the American Institute of Physics’ science policy news service, FYI, to learn what they’ve missed. We spoke… Read More
Fall 2021

Science Policy From the Ground Up

Melissa Flagg, Arti Garg

The United States’ system for federal support of scientific research and development emerged in the 1950s. Driven by the goal of building domestic STEM capability for meeting modern society’s needs, the nation… Read More
Summer 2018

The Limits of Dual Use

Tara Mahfoud, Christine Aicardi, Saheli Datta, Nikolas Rose

Research and technologies designed to generate benefits for civilians that can also be used for military purposes are termed “dual use.” The concept of dual use frames and informs debates about how… Read More
Fall 2021

Run Uphill for a Tsunami, Downhill for a Landslide

Lisa Busch, Robert Lempert, Max Izenberg, Annette Patton

Historic Sitka, Alaska, a town of 9,000 residents, is located on an island southwest of the state capital of Juneau, in the heart of the Tongass National Forest. The Pacific Ocean borders … Read More
Fall 2019

On Earth: Imaging, Technology, and the Natural World

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Since its inception, photography has testified to the complex relationship between humans, nature, and technology. In the wake of great nineteenth-century landscape photographers, a new generation of artists are employing contemporary imaging… Read More
Spring 2021

Electric Energy

Iván Navarro

Iván Navarro, Street Lamp (Yellow Bench), 2012; neon light, cement, metal and electric energy; 38 1/2 × 72 × 43 inches. All images © Courtesy Gallerie Templon, Paris – Brussels. The… Read More
Fall 2021

Finding Safe Zones for Science

Valerie J. Karplus, M. Granger Morgan, David G. Victor

For those of us engaged in international scientific collaboration, today’s geopolitics are starting to rhyme with history. In the 1960s, US and Soviet scientists sought new ways to collaborate despite deteriorating political… Read More
August 26, 2021

AI Invents—But Should It Get Patents, Too?

Michael M. Rosen

Three years ago, an IBM computer named Project Debater squared off against two internationally recognized debate champions for the first time. Although the humans narrowly prevailed (as judged by a human audience),… Read More
Summer 2021

More and More and More Culture

David Beer

Back in December, Spotify provided me with an automated and personalized end-of-year review. Drawing upon digital trace data, it delivered a mininarrative of my listening practices. Of the things that stood out,… Read More
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

“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
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

World Wide Weird: Rise of the Cognitive Ecosystem

Braden R. Allenby

In the beginning of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, an ape, after hugging a strange monolith, picks up a bone and randomly begins playing with it … and then, as Richard… Read More
June 11, 2021

For Cleaner, Greener Power, Expand the Definition of “Batteries”

Sarah Kurtz, Noah Kittner, Sergio Castellanos, Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, Daniel Kammen

As California and other municipalities set off on the path to zero-carbon energy economies, there is a worldwide search for ways to provide clean, ever-ready power to the grid to balance intermittent… Read More
June 10, 2021

The Emerging Republican Climate Policy Framework

Sarah E. Hunt

A conservative climate change policy agenda is quietly taking shape in Congress. Stark conservative philosophical differences with progressive climate change leaders such as Sen. Edward Markey (MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY)… 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
Spring 2021

The Tragedy of the Climate Wars

Mike Hulme

Michael Mann has been in the climate wars for well over a decade now. As he reminds us frequently in this new book, he has been in the crosshairs of his enemies,… Read More
August 4, 2020

Mars Is Coming to Earth

Bhavya Lal, Jeff Trauberman

Last week’s launch of NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is the first leg of a four-stage, decade-long joint endeavor with the European Space Agency to bring back about half a kilogram of soil… 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?