Search Results 200 Results Found for Summer 2022 Reflections on Carrie Mae Weems’s RESIST COVID | TAKE 6! David Fakunle, Carrie Mae Weems I often share a Zimbabwean proverb about lion hunts: “Until the lion tells its side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” I felt the spirit… Read More Winter 2020 Ownership Dilemmas in an Age of Creative Machines Lav R. Varshney, Deepak Somaya Recently, a computer-generated work of art titled “Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de Belamy” was sold by the auction house Christie’s for $350,000 to an anonymous bidder. Purported to be the… Read More February 14, 2022 Episode 8: Fighting COVID with Art Because art is a powerful tool for connecting with communities, building stronger relationships between artists and public health programs may be a way to increase people’s confidence about vaccines. On this episode, cartoonist… Read More Summer 2022 On the Power of Networks Lisa Margonelli A mosquito net made from lemons, a workout shirt that feeds sweat to cyanobacteria to generate electricity, a water filter using moss from the Andes—and a slime mold that produces eerie electronic… Read More Fall 2022 Arctic Ice Cy Keener, Justine Holzman, Ignatius Rigor, John Woods Sea Ice Daily Drawings, 2019–2022, aluminum, acrylic, paper, and ink (detail) Integrating field data, remote satellite imagery, scientific analysis, and multimedia visual representation to document Arctic ice that is disappearing due to… Read More Winter 2022 Behind the Bougainvillea Curtain: Wildfires and Inequality Michael Méndez More equitable approaches to preparation and relief efforts for wildfires and other disasters must include undocumented Latino and Indigenous migrants. Summer 2021 COVID Artifacts James Gouldthorpe It’s been more than a year since the pandemic started. Now that vaccines have arrived, a measure of hope has returned. But memories of the early days of the pandemic lie close… Read More Winter 2022 Complexity and Visual Systems Ellen K. Levy Art, in both creation and experience, is one of the most complex of human endeavors. Artist Ellen K. Levy engages the mental loop of seeing, connecting, and processing by juxtaposing imagery that… Read More Spring 2021 Data for the People! In “The Path to Better Health: Give People Their Data” (Issues, Winter 2021), Jason Cohen makes an important contribution to the discussion of data privacy. Data privacy in the midst… Read More December 21, 2021 Episode 4: Art of a COVID Year In the early days of the pandemic, communities began singing together over balconies, banging pans, and engaging in other forms of collective support, release, and creativity. Artists have also been creatively responding… Read More December 17, 2021 Can Crop Waste Reduce Plastic Pollution? Biodesign Challenge VISION: Use agricultural byproducts like molasses from sugar beets and spent grains from beer to make plastic consumer packaging more sustainable and circular. Team: Joseph Cardenas, Sarah Craven School:… Read More Winter 2021 Human-Centered AI Ben Shneiderman In early 1997, before Alexa and Siri were conceived, I engaged in several public debates with MIT Media Lab professor Pattie Maes about the future of computing and artificial intelligence. The starting… Read More Winter 2022 Wired and CERN Steve Miller Quantum System, 2020, 39 x 69 inches On a trip to Brazil, artist Steve Miller was captivated by the tangled web of power lines in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, the largest… Read More 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 April 19, 2022 Revisiting NSF’s Founding Compromise Nicholas Robichaud, Jessica L. Rosenberg, James L. Olds The National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Science Board (NSB) were founded in 1950 with the passage of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (the “Organic Act”) and a small $37… Read More Spring 2021 A Manifesto to Responsibly Extend Reality Into Virtual Realms Dhoya Snijders, Rinie Van Est We perceive physical reality with our senses: we see the blue sky, hear waves crashing on the beach, feel the wind in our hair. As technology such as augmented reality (AR) and… Read More August 26, 2022 Endless Frontier Symposium 2022 On September 22, 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (National Academies), in collaboration with the Kavli Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Issues in Science and Technology,… Read More Summer 2020 Public Value Science Barry Bozeman STEF at 75 Why should the United States government support science? That question was apparently settled 75 years ago by Vannevar Bush in Science, the Endless Frontier: “Since health, well-being, and… Read More March 23, 2022 Independent Science for a Daunting Future Fred H. Gage, Eric D. Isaacs When President Franklin D. Roosevelt called on Vannevar Bush to conceive a new future for American scientific research in the waning days of World War II, Bush responded with a breathtakingly bold… Read More March 11, 2022 What If Our Phones Had Skin? Biodesign Challenge VISION: Sheathe cell phones in a living, electricity-generating skin made by bacteria, changing how we relate to them and how they are charged. Team: Nada Elkharashi, Sequoia Fischer, Catherine Euale, Paige Perillat-Piratoine… Read More Summer 2022 The Pomological Watercolor Collection US Department of Agriculture In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, healthy orchards and groves were seen as crucial to national prosperity. As people across the country created new cultivars, or varieties, through hybridization, the… Read More September 28, 2021 Imagining the Role of the Research University Anew Timothy Lieuwen, Seth Marder, Chaouki T. Abdallah The year is 2034, and a magnitude 8.2 earthquake has just hit southern California. The destruction is massive and widespread as the long-feared mega-temblor races 100 miles up the San Andreas Fault … Read More January 27, 2022 The Hard Math of Minerals Mark P. Mills The great twentieth-century physicist Richard Feynman once said that “it is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge what energy is.” But we do know one unequivocal fact:… Read More Fall 2021 Codeswitch Sanford Biggers A Visionary Agenda—in Quilts, Mars, and Pound Cake Sanford Biggers, The Talk, 2016. Antique quilt, fabric, tar, and glitter, 80 x 84 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Artists and poets have… Read More Winter 2022 Innovation as a Force for Equity Shobita Parthasarathy As we plan our science and innovation policy strategy for the next 75 years, we must work to center equity as a public value. Today, the United States is profoundly unequal, with… Read More Summer 2019 Protecting the Accuracy of the 2020 Census Constance F. Citro Since 1790, US census data has been built into the fabric of the society, economy, and polity—and strong systems can assure accuracy. February 11, 2021 US No Longer in Innovation’s Top 10 Tom Burroughs The United States dropped out of the Bloomberg Innovation Index’s top 10 countries this year. The index assesses such things as R&D spending, manufacturing capability, and concentration of high-tech companies. South Korea… Read More Spring 2021 Open to Experimentation Adam Millsap, Neil Chilson America is an especially philanthropic society. It has ranked number one on the World Giving Index for the last 10 years. A 2016 report found that annual charitable giving in the United… 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 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 Previous Next
