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• Spring 2007

  Scrutinizing the Inscrutable

  Kevin Finneran

  Business and government leaders around the world are pondering developments in China and India. Everyone can see that the future of more than a third of the world’s population is of paramount… Read More

• Spring 2007

  It’s the Neurons, Stupid; Or Is It?

  Arie W. Kruglanski

  Neuroscience is rapidly coming to dominate psychology. Its high-tech exploration of the relationship between behavior and the physical characteristics of the brain is the polar opposite of “bubbe” psychology: the commonsense notion … Read More

• Fall 2006

  The False Promise of the Scientist ex Machina

  Kevin Finneran

  In a scene in the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen is waiting in line to enter a movie and becomes disgusted with a guy near him in the line who is… Read More

• Fall 2006

  Archives – Fall 2006

  Birdwing Butterfly from Papua New Guinea This image of a birdwing butterfly, included in the National Academies’ permanent art collection, is part of Rosamond Purcell’s larger body of work in which she… Read More

• Summer 2006

  Forum – Summer 2006

  Lewis M. Branscomb, Denis Fred Simon, James Goodby, Frank Barnaby, Lincoln Wolfenstein, Muhammad Sahimi, Daniel D. Benetti, Tim Eichenberg, George H. Leonard, David A. Mongillo, John Horsley, Robert W. Poole Jr., Ron Utt, Harold Linnenkohl, Lori A. Perine, Buford A. Crites

  Nuclear amnesia Jack Mendelsohn is certainly right about “nuclear amnesia” (“Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons,” Issues, Spring 2006). Even in official administration documents, there is a rather casual attitude about the possibility… Read More

• Fall 2001

  U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age

  Dale W. Jorgenson

  The resurgence of the U.S. economy from 1995 to 1999 outran all but the most optimistic expectations. It is not surprising that the unusual combination of more rapid growth and slower inflation… Read More

• Fall 2005

  Envisioning a Transformed University

  James J. Duderstadt, Wm. A. Wulf, Robert Zemsky

  Rapidly evolving information technology (IT) has played an important role in expanding our capacity to generate, distribute, and apply knowledge, which in turn has produced unpredictable and frequently disruptive change in existing… Read More

• Summer 2005

  The National Nanotechnology Initiative: Present at the Creation

  Neal Lane, Thomas Kalil

  The United States, which made a major early commitment to nanotechnology in 2000, has been the world’s research leader, but as the promise of nanotechnology has grown the government commitment has flattened.… Read More

• Summer 2005

  Forum – Summer 2005

  Jonathan B. Tucker, David H. Guston, Arlie M. Skov, Robert Fri, Colin J. Campbell, Anne Korin, Chris Skrebowski, Elizabeth Casman, Duncan Cooper, Louise S. Gresham, Kelly J. Henning, Farzad Mostashari, Thomas Cochran, Christopher Paine, Andrew Koehler, F. David Doty, Kelly D. Brownell, Susan Hackwood, Muin J. Khoury, Lloyd F. Novick, Cynthia B. Morrow, William A. Smith

  Future oil supplies As Robert L. Hirsch, Roger H. Bezdek, and Robert M. Wendling themselves point out, their “Peaking Oil Production: Sooner Rather Than Later?” (Issues, Spring 2005) repeats… Read More

• Spring 2005

  Cartoon – Spring 2005

  “Don’t give me any of this healthy body mass index nonsense. I say you’re scrawny.”… Read More

• Spring 2005

  Book Review: Commercializing the university

  Robert Zemsky

  Commercializing the university Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education, by Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 424 pp. Robert Zemsky… Read More

• Winter 2004

  Establishing a Bureau of Environmental Statistics

  H. Spencer Banzhaf

  In 2003, Rep. Doug Ose (R-Calif.) proposed the Department of Environmental Protection Act, which would elevate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to a cabinet department and create within it a Bureau of… Read More

• Spring 2004

  Nuclear Technology’s Numerous Uses

  Alan E. Waltar

  We should not let unjustified fear of radiation create obstacles to continued progress and benefits. In his 1953 “Atoms for Peace” address to the United Nations, President Dwight D. Eisenhower challenged scientists… Read More

• Summer 2004

  Asian countries strengthen their research

  Diana Hicks

  The global scientific landscape is changing. During the past decade, many governments, convinced that their economic futures lay with knowledge-based economies, sought to strengthen national research and education. Increased foreign scientific competitiveness… Read More

• Winter 2004

  Practical Climate Change Policy

  Jonathan B. Wiener, Richard B. Stewart

  Global climate change policy has reached a stalemate. Europe, Canada, and Japan have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but it now appears that Russia probably will not, and the Bush administration has ruled… Read More

• Spring 2004

  The Hype about Hydrogen

  Joseph J. Romm

  We can’t use hydrogen’s long-term potential as an excuse to avoid taking action now on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen and fuel cell cars are being hyped today as few technologies have… Read More

• Fall 2003

  A House with No Foundation

  D. Michael Risinger, Michael J. Saks

  Many of the forensic techniques used in courtroom proceedings, such as hair analysis, fingerprinting, the polygraph, and ballistics, rest on a foundation of very weak science, and virtually no rigorous research to… Read More

• Fall 2003

  Forum – Fall 2003

  Michael May, Albert H. Teich, George Smith, M. Granger Morgan, Henry I. Miller, Gerald L. Epstein, Dorothy E. Denning, Robin Coupland, Edward Hammond, E. William Colglazier, David P. Fidler, Frances Williams, Ariane Koenig, Philipp Aerni, M. Ann Tutwiler, Peter Hazell, Jody Williams, Paul Wapner, Gina Coplon-Newfield, Gordon H. Orians, Jerry F. Costello

  Federal R&D: More balanced support needed Thomas Kalil (“A Broader Vision for Government Research,” Issues, Spring 2003) is correct that the missions of agencies with limited capacities to support research… Read More

• Winter 2002

  Achievement Versus Aptitude in College Admissions

  Richard C. Atkinson

  Students should be selected on the basis of their demonstrated success in learning, not some ill-defined notion of aptitude. Every year, more than a million high school students stake their futures on… Read More

• Fall 2002

  The Perils of Groundwater Pumping

  Robert Glennon

  The next time you reach for a bottle of spring water, consider that it may have come from a well that is drying up a blue-ribbon trout stream. The next time you… Read More

• Fall 2002

  Forum – Fall 2002

  Burton Richter, Lincoln Wolfenstein, Jack Ward Thomas, Gerald B. Kauvar, Joseph M. Sussman, Robert Timothy Reagan, Henry L. Roediger III, Alan W. Scheflin, Robert E. Barnhill, Nils Hasselmo, Felice Stadler, Frank O'Donnell, Eric Uram, Martin Pitt, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Stephen O. Andersen, K. Madhava Sarma

  Dealing with terror I was a member of John Hamre’s Commission on Science and Security, and he does an outstanding job in his article of explaining what we were about and why… Read More

• Fall 2001

  A New Approach to Managing Fisheries

  Robert Repetto

  Most commercial fisheries in the United States suffer from overfishing or inefficient harvesting or both. As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars in potential income is lost to the fishing industry,… Read More

• Summer 2000

  The Boom in Industry Research

  Charles F. Larson

  Meetings on science and technology (S&T) policy or innovation in Washington, D.C., or elsewhere around the country usually find at least one speaker lamenting that industry has abandoned longer-term high-risk research. Nothing… Read More

• Spring 1999

  The Age of Hubris and Complacency

  Kevin Finneran

  It’s early March. The Dow is getting ready to add a digit. The U.S. military is flexing its muscles in Iraq and Kosovo. The chattering class is contentedly chewing on the paltry… Read More

• Fall 1998

  Forum – Fall 1998

  Philip J. Cook, M. S. Swaminathan, P. N. Tandon, Lu Yongxiang, Francisco Bolivar-Zapata, Eugene Skolnikoff, William J. Baumol, Robert Solow, Paul H. Blackman, Richard J. Codey, Allan Walstad, Terry Davies, Maureen Hinkle, Dennis R. Minano, Don Ritter, F. Scott Bush, Bob Shinn, Bert R. J. Bolin, Alan P. Loeb

  International science cooperation In “Toward a Global Science” (Issues, Summer 1998), Bruce M. Alberts highlights four principles that guide the international activities of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. They… Read More

• Summer 1999

  Does university-industry collaboration adversely affect university research?

  Diana Hicks, Kimberly Hamilton

  Below is the page above transcribed into this article post. With university-industry research ties increasing, it is possible to question whether close involvement with industry is always in the best interests of… Read More

• Summer 1999

  Are New Accountability Rules Bad for Science?

  Susan E. Cozzens

  In 1993, the U.S. Congress quietly passed a good government bill, with little fanfare and full bipartisan support. President Clinton happily signed it into law, and Vice President Gore incorporated its principles… Read More

• Summer 1998

  Computers Can Accelerate Productivity Growth

  Kevin J. Stiroh, Robert H. McGuckin

  Conventional wisdom argues that rapid change in information technology over the past 20 years represents a paradigm shift, one perhaps as important as that caused by the electric dynamo near the turn… Read More

• Winter 1999

  The New Competitive Landscape

  Debra Van Opstal

  Only a decade ago, global competition shook U.S. self-confidence to the core. U.S. industry seemingly could not match the price and quality of manufactured goods that surged into the domestic market. As… Read More

• Winter 1999

  EPA analyzed

  David Clarke

  To the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is faced with legislative requirements to better explain its goals and achievements under the Government Performance and Results Act as well as numerous other independent… Read More