Search Results 200 Results Found for Fall 2018 William Utermohlen Issues William Utermohlen was born in south Philadelphia in 1933. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1951 to 1957 and on the G.I. bill at the Ruskin School… Read More October 2, 2018 Revisiting the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Tom Burroughs A century ago this year, influenza swept much of the world, killing perhaps 50 million people—one of every 30 humans on the planet. Today, top health groups say flu pandemics are nearly… Read More Summer 2016 Detroit Industry Murals Diego Rivera The Detroit Industry murals by prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera pay tribute to Detroit’s manufacturing base and labor force. In the first half of the twentieth century, Detroit was the center of… Read More Summer 2018 Indicators of R&D Tax Support Ana González-Cabral, Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Silvia Appelt Investment in research and development (R&D) is a key driver of innovation and economic growth. In addition to funding R&D within public institutes or universities, governments within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation… Read More July 15, 2018 Chinese Innovation on the Rise Tom Burroughs 7/15/18 – China joined the world’s top 20 most innovative economies and is aiming to move higher, while the United States fell out of the top 5, according to the recently released… Read More Winter 2018 Funding Highways Alan Jenn, Daniel Sperling, David L. Greene As John Paul Helveston says in “Navigating an Uncertain Future for US Roads” (Issues, Fall 2017), highway finance in the United States is “broken and broke.” It is ill suited… Read More Fall 2017 Beyond the Primordial Ooze Dinty W. Moore How do “real” Americans experience and think about the supposed divide between science and religion? Spring 2016 Forum – Spring 2016 Dale Jamieson, Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Alan Miller, Robert L. Hirsch, Norman R. Augustine, Naomi Oreskes, Mary Woolley, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Sherwood Boehlert, Rush D. Holt, Reiner Grundmann, Richard Hamblyn, Mark Bessoudo, Jessica R. Lovering, William A. Sahlman, Joseph B. Lassiter III, Roar Fosse, Richard J. Bonnie, Bill Godshall, Carlo Pietrobelli Purposeful science In “Fact Check: Scientific Research in the National Interest Act” (Issues, Winter 2016), Congressman Lamar Smith critiques the concerns presented by Democrats, scientists, and a number of social… Read More Fall 2017 A Silicon Valley Catechism Frank Pasquale For over a decade, business books have exhorted managers to be “supercrunchers”—numbers-obsessed quantifiers, quick to make important decisions as “data driven” as possible. There is an almost evangelical quality to this work,… Read More Winter 2018 Make America Great Again Gregory Tassey The United States emerged from World War II as the dominant technology-driven economy in the world. For decades, virtually every major technology was developed and initially commercialized within the US economy by… Read More Fall 2017 Search History Rachel Wilkinson Some people go running or meditate; they recite mantras or affirmations, carry pictures of the saints. My brother used to keep one of those mini Zen rock gardens in his room as… Read More Summer 2014 Natural Histories 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library In a time of the internet, social media networks, and smart phones, when miraculous devices demand our attention with beeps, buzzes, and spiffy… Read More Summer 2017 The End of the Line G. Pascal Zachary Innovation is almost universally desired but almost always misunderstood. Confusion abounds over such basic tasks as how to describe how innovation works and even what counts as innovation. If culture conditions innovation,… Read More Spring 2017 Give Bats a Break Merlin D. Tuttle Searches for new viruses in bats are unlikely to contribute substantially to human health, but they may threaten the future of bats. Winter 2017 A Technology-Based Growth Policy Gregory Tassey Monetary and fiscal policies to stimulate the economy are no substitute for the national research and development investment needed to spur productivity growth and create high-paying, high-skill jobs. Talk to people in… Read More Summer 2016 Reshaping Space Policies to Meet Global Trends Bhavya Lal The space sector is undergoing a major transformation. Fifty years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union conducted the only significant national space programs, and only a small number of commercial… Read More Fall 2015 Communicating the Value and Values of Science Kathleen Hall Jamieson Science is communicated to the public, press, and policymakers in various ways by distinguished entities, which I have characterized elsewhere as custodians of knowledge. These include governmental institutions such as the National… Read More Winter 2007 Growing Old or Living Long: Take Your Pick Laura L. Carstensen The 20th century witnessed two profound changes in regions of the world where people are well educated and science and technology flourish: Life expectancy nearly doubled, and fertility rates fell dramatically. As… Read More Summer 2011 The Little Reactor That Could? Ross Carper, Sonja Schmid A week before Halloween 2009, John R. Deal, an entrepreneur who goes almost exclusively by “Grizz,” took the stage at the Denver Art Museum to deliver the headline talk at an evening… Read More Fall 2016 Crime and Immigration: New Forms of Exclusion and Discrimination Mary C. Waters Mary C. Waters gives a lecture on The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: New Forms of Legal Exclusion and Discrimination in the United States In the United States today,… Read More Previous
