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Winter 2024
Revisiting the Connection Between Innovation, Education, and Regional Economic Growth
Forty years ago, Bruce Babbitt, then governor of Arizona, wrote in the first issue of this magazine that state and local governments had “discovered scientific research and technological innovation as the prime… 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 -
Summer 2021
True Stories of Managed Retreat From Rising Waters
As communities across the United States and around the world are increasingly threatened by climate-driven flooding and sea-level rise, academic researchers and disaster managers alike agree that managed retreat—the abandonment of occupied… 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 -
Spring 2018
Reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program
Since 1968, the federal government has provided flood insurance to homeowners residing in flood-prone areas through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Emergency Management… Read More
