Search Results 200 Results Found for Summer 2020 Around Nature Juanli Carrión Juanli Carrión, OSSVLC (Outer Seed Shadow: Valencia) (2016–17). Five hundred years ago, the Spanish government and private investors funded a commercial trip led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano that would… Read More Fall 2019 Feedlots Mishka Henner Mishka Henner is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Manchester, England. He is known for prints and videos that appropriate image-rich technologies, including Google Earth, Google Street View, and YouTube. He described his… Read More Winter 2020 Will Precision Medicine Lead to a Healthier Population? Nigel Paneth, Richard Cooper Human health and biomedical science have been transformed in tandem over the past two centuries. From around 1850 to 1920, better nutrition and prevention of epidemic infections were the main contributors to… Read More July 1, 2020 Do-It-Yourself Pandemic: It’s Time for Accountability in Models Guru Madhavan The responsibility of building scientific models has much in common with the responsibility of sitting in the exit row on an airplane. One can enjoy the extra leg room of creating imaginative… Read More November 23, 2020 Pandemic Continues to Ravage US Correctional System Tom Burroughs The devastation inflicted by the coronavirus on US prisons and jails is “both a moral failure and a public health one,” the New York Times editorial board writes, going on to examine… Read More June 2, 2020 Ford v. Ferrari—in Space! Bhavya Lal May 30, 2020, marked the first time in history that human beings were launched into Earth orbit on a privately owned rocket. The SpaceX mission, called Demo-2 because it was intended to… Read More September 16, 2020 Who Believes in Hydroxychloroquine? David Adam There was a time when we journalists struggled to find meaty stories to cover during the late-summer doldrums. No longer. Amid the continuing deluge of pandemic news, scientists at Oxford University recently… Read More Summer 2020 The Race to the Top David Sainsbury Since 1990, nations of the Group of Seven, comprising the world’s largest industrialized economies, have all shown declining rates of economic growth. Over the same period, growth in many developing countries has… Read More August 18, 2020 A Patriot Act Moment for Science Tayyaba Jiwani As the world fights a historic pandemic, science has taken global center stage. Many governments made tough decisions following scientific advice, such as enforcing lockdowns and closing national borders, that ground the… Read More Summer 2020 The Autonomy and Integrity of Science Clifton A. Poodry, Heather Douglas, James Robert Brown, Michael Feuer, Molly Carnes, Steve Fuller, Sue Rosser One indicator of the quality of scholarship is its shelf life. Findings from good science are often not immediately used or useful, but their value requires delayed gratification. My favorite example is… Read More Summer 2020 Forum – Summer 2020 Gerhard Sonnert, Adam Parris, Steve Fuller, Heather Douglas, Christopher Newfield, Marcy Darnovsky, Jonathan Lewis, Duncan McLaren, Karl Zimmerer, Alex Smith, Netra Chhetri, Roger Stoffregen, John Aubrey Douglass, Valerie K. Haftel, Emmanuel K. Peprah Jr., Stephen Posner, David W. Cash, Peat Leith, Sue Rosser, James Robert Brown, Molly Carnes, Clifton A. Poodry, Norman G. Lederman, Michiel Van Oudheusden, Fabien Medvecky, Stevienna de Saille, Michael Feuer Cutting carbon Carbon capture and sequestration technologies will play an essential role in climate change mitigation, so it is not surprising that California’s plan for achieving negative emissions, described by Roger D.… Read More Summer 2020 “This Is Everybody’s Issue” Margaret A. Hamburg, William Kearney, Victor Dzau The editor of Issues in Science and Technology, William Kearney, recently discussed the coronavirus pandemic with National Academy of Medicine President Victor Dzau and immediate past NAM Foreign Secretary Margaret “Peggy” … Read More Summer 2020 The Metro Project Chris M. Forsyth Underground public transit systems play a pivotal role in the day-to-day functioning of cities around the world. They also contribute to a city’s unique visual identity. Captivated by the overlooked beauty of… Read More Spring 2019 Pending Memories Adrian Fernandez The latest series of photographs by Cuban artist Adrian Fernandez portray the backside of billboards situated in surreal landscapes. The complex structures and unexpected shapes are suggestive of Russian constructivism, but the… Read More January 17, 2020 The Big Data Mindset Iddo K. Wernick Implicit in the widely held expectations of a bright technological future is the belief that a certain comprehensive knowledge about the elements of a system will allow scientists to grasp the rules… Read More September 22, 2020 What Science and Technology Owe the National Defense On September 23, 2020, Jamie Holmes, Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle, and Margaret O’Mara explored a pivotal moment in US history and its implications for today’s debates over technology and … Read More Summer 2019 Keep on Truckin’ Kevin Finneran I began working at Issues in mid-1987, and 32 years later it’s … what?—sobering? enlightening? depressing? bewildering? astonishing?—to reflect on how science, technology, and health policy has and hasn’t changed. Many topics… Read More April 30, 2020 A Plague Comes to Busytown Clark A. Miller One of the curious oddities of the COVID-19 crisis is just how poorly science has done at anticipating its twists and turns. Each day, the pandemic seems to surprise us anew. Despite… Read More April 16, 2020 Where’s Congress? Don’t Just Blame Trump for the Coronavirus Catastrophe M. Anthony Mills, Robert Cook-Deegan How in the world did it happen? The United States has the highest rating in the world on the Global Health Security Index, which assesses prevention, capacity for detection, preparedness and planning,… Read More Winter 2020 Chinese Science Policy at a Crossroads Richard P. Suttmeier The sharp deterioration of United States-China relations over the past 18 months has raised a series of new challenges for Chinese scientific development. What started out as trade friction has evolved into… Read More February 25, 2020 Killing Rekindles Debate on Young Offenders Tom Burroughs Three young teenagers are set to be tried as adults for the killing of a college student in New York City in late 2019, but the New York Times editorial board cites… Read More Winter 2020 Neural Glitch Mario Klingemann Mario Klingemann, 2018 Mario Klingemann describes himself as “an artist and a skeptic with a curious mind.” His work spans and incorporates a wide range of tools and technologies, including neural networks… Read More Summer 2019 Artificial Intelligence for a Social World Justine Cassell Will artificial intelligence (AI) mean the end of social interaction? I want to say right away—so that you can stop reading if this disappoints you—that I’m not going to answer that question.… Read More April 17, 2020 Where’s Congress? Don’t Just Blame Trump for the Coronavirus Catastrophe You can watch a recording of this webinar here. The United States has the world’s highest rating on the Global Health Security Index. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may… Read More Fall 2019 Dental Exam Shara Bailey The Tales Teeth Tell aims to introduce readers to the wonderful world of teeth and what they can tell us about human evolution. In the field of evolutionary anthropology, teeth have long… Read More Fall 2019 Fragmentation Seth Clark Seth Clark’s collages and sculpture focus on deteriorating architecture. Usually designed for permanence, buildings are constantly being challenged by geological, meteorological, and other external forces. Clark enjoys studying the way they fall… Read More November 18, 2019 Vaping As Health Policy Experiment Tom Burroughs Amid proposals to ban e-cigarettes, it should be remembered that vaping can help smokers kick the habit or discourage people from smoking at all, says a New York Times editorial. And a… Read More Fall 2019 Troubles in Climate Journalism Warren Pearce Matthew Nisbet’s column, “The Trouble With Climate Emergency Journalism” (Issues, Summer 2019), highlights two persistent problems at the heart of public debates on climate change over the past three decades:… Read More October 16, 2019 Forum Carl Mitcham, Christopher T. Hill, Gene L. Dodaro, Terri Ann Lowenthal, Cynthia Z. F. Clark, Ruth Macklin, Yan Ping, Sandra L. Calvert, William Savedoff, Sherri Goodman, Warren Pearce, Josh Galperin, David Schimel, Michael Keller, Wendy Gram, Diane Pataki, Dale Hitchcock Protecting the census Census Day is right around the corner. The US Government Accountability Office agrees with the challenges facing the upcoming enumeration that Constance F. Citro identified in “Protecting the Accuracy… Read More Spring 2019 How Should Science Respond to CRISPR’d Babies? Henry T. Greely On November 25, 2018, much of the world (including me) was shocked to hear of the birth of the world’s first babies produced from embryos whose DNA had been edited by the… Read More Previous Next
