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• Summer 2014

  Forum – Summer 2014

  Robert Atkinson, Cong Cao, Richard P. Suttmeier, Charles F. Manski, Miles Parker, Mike Bithell, Patrick Lin, David W. Kreutzer, Eville Gorham, Michael H. Klein, Mike Coburn, Lan Xue, Denis Simon

  Evidence-driven policy In “Advancing Evidence-Based Policymaking to Solve Social Problems” (Issues, Fall 2013), Jeffrey B. Liebman has written an informative and thoughtful article on the potential contribution of empirical analysis… 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.

• 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

• 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

• Winter 2011

  Making Stories Visible: The Task for Bioethics Commissions

  Adam Briggle, Meera Lee Sethi

  A little before lunchtime on December 6, 1957, when the United States made its first attempt to match the triumph of Russia’s Sputnik 1 by launching its own Vanguard TV3 satellite into… 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

• Spring 2016

  Germline Gene Therapy: Don’t Let Good Intentions Spawn Bad Policy

  Henry Miller

  The proposed moratorium on clinical applications of gene editing technology reveals ignorance about how innovation works, and callousness about human suffering. “Human gene therapy” has been one of the most ambitious goals… 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

• Spring 2015

  Clean Energy Diplomacy from Bush to Obama

  Graham Pugh

  The Bush administration didn’t get everything wrong about climate change, and the Obama administration isn’t getting everything right. A truly effective climate policy would include the best elements of each approach. Among… 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 2015

  The Pauling-Teller Debate: A Tangle of Expertise and Values

  Melinda Gormley, Melissae Fellet

  This historic debate from the height of the Cold War provides a refreshing perspective on science and politics. By 1958, Americans had been living under threat of nuclear attack for more than… Read More

• Summer 2016

  Surviving the Techstorm

  Eleonore Pauwels

  In A Dangerous Master, Wendell Wallach, a scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, tells the story of modern society’s struggle to cope with technology’s complexity and uncertainty. In the… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Forum – Winter 2015

  William B. Bonvillian, Alan I. Leshner, Fanta Aw, Edward Alden, Diane Ravitch, Sarah A. Lewis, Robert Nerem, Kate Konschnik, Byron Newberry, Glen Miller, Deborah G. Johnson, Darryl Farber, Roel Snieder, Peter Kroes

  Immigration reform In “Streamlining the Visa Immigration Systems for Scientists and Engineers” (Issues, Fall 2014), Albert H. Teich articulates very well many of the arguments for making the U.S. visa… Read More

• Winter 2016

  Exceptional Circumstances: Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?

  Nico Stehr

  Researchers who flirt with the idea that more authoritarian governance would help us address global warming are badly mistaken. What’s really needed is more democracy. The threats to democracy in the modern… Read More

• Fall 2014

  Imagining the Future City

  Rider W. Foley, Darren Petrucci, Arnim Wiek

  A rich blend of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis can provide decisionmakers with the various perspectives they need when making choices with long-range consequences for cities around the world. An ashen sky … Read More

• Spring 2014

  The Politics behind China’s Quest for Nobel Prizes

  Junbo Yu

  JUNBO YU China is applying its strategy for winning Olympic gold to science policy. It may be surprised by the outcomes—but overall, the world will benefit. Skeptics about the capacity of… Read More

• Winter 2016

  How to Bring Global R&D into Latin America: Lessons from Chile

  José Guimón, Laurens Klerkx, Thierry de Saint Pierre

  Over the past several decades, a growing number of multinational companies have established research and development (R&D) facilities outside of their home countries. More recently, some universities and public research organizations have… Read More

• Fall 2014

  Imagining Deep Time

  An exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, DC “Geohistory is the immensely long and complex history of the earth, including the life on its surface (biohistory), as distinct from… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Is China a Clean-Energy Model?

  William Chandler

  Global climate negotiations have long been stymied by disagreement between rich and poor countries over who should take responsibility for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Less-developed nations tell developed countries, “You created this… Read More

• Fall 2015

  Jailhouse Rot

  Kevin Finneran

  Americans seem to have a thing for prisons. Not only do we have the world’s largest prison population, we have a rich and incongruous pop culture heritage of films and songs about… Read More