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• Fall 2018

  Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks

  Julie Anand, Damon Sauer

  

  In this series of images of what remains of the Corona project, Julie Anand and Damon Sauer investigate our relationship to the vast networks of information that encircle the globe. The Corona… Read More

• Winter 2017

  Fashion, Animal, Sound

  Steve Miller

  

  The images in Steve Miller’s Fashion, Animal, Sound series are all X-rays. He began experimenting with the technology decades ago because it enabled him to re-invent the notion of a portrait by… Read More

• Spring 2017

  Glass Microbiology

  Luke Jerram

  

  Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary arts practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, and live artworks. He lives in the United Kingdom and creates work across the globe. Glass Microbiology is a collection of… 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

• 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.

• Summer 2019

  Walking in Antarctica

  Helen Glazer

  

  Walking in Antarctica is inspired by Helen Glazer’s experience as a 2015 grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Since returning from her trip, she has been working… Read More

• Summer 2018

  Beyond Patents

  Jeffrey Funk

  Over the past 20 years, patent analysis has become a dominant method of studying innovation. The number of papers containing “patent citation” listed in Google Scholar rose from fewer than 10 in… Read More

• Spring 2019

  Editor’s Journal

  Kevin Finneran

  The first scientific papers about breakthrough developments in the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR appeared in late 2012 and early 2013. Researchers soon recognized that this relatively accurate and easy-to-use technology… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Investing in Entrepreneurs Everywhere

  Tracy Van Grack

  In July 2018, the US House of Representatives—in a surprising act of bipartisanship—passed a collection of bills dubbed the Jobs Act 3.0. The bills, broadly speaking, were designed to ignite innovation and… Read More

• Fall 2017

  What Does Innovation Today Tell Us About the US Economy Tomorrow?

  Jeffrey Funk

  How does the future of technological innovation look for the United States economy? Experts disagree. Techno-optimists such as Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Martin Ford, and Ray Kurzweil claim that there are endless… Read More

• Spring 2018

  We Need New Rules for Self-Driving Cars

  Jack Stilgoe

  There is a sign on the campus of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Virginia that reads “From tragedy we draw knowledge to improve the safety of us all.” The NTSB… Read More

• Winter 2019

  Why the United States Should Partner With Africa to Deploy Advanced Reactors

  Jessica Lovering, Kenton De Kirby

  Africa has nuclear power in its future. Interest in nuclear energy technologies among African nations is considerable and growing. Of the 30 countries identified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as… Read More

• Winter 2018

  Forum – Winter 2018

  Daniel Sperling, Edward A. Parson, Jane C. S. Long, Richard R. Nelson, Keith Kloor, Irwin Feller, Ben Shneiderman, Sallie Keller, Stephanie Shipp, Alan Jenn, David L. Greene, Laura M. Hartman, Lisa H. Sideris, Yves Gingras

  What drives innovation? In “What Does Innovation Today Tell Us about the US Economy Tomorrow?” (Issues, Fall 2017), Jeffrey Funk starts with an assertion that puzzles me, but after that… Read More

• 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

• Fall 2017

  “Shuddering Before the Beautiful”: Trains of Thought Across the Mormon Cosmos

  Jamie Zvirzdin

  If then th’ Astronomers, whereas they spie A new-found Starre, their Opticks magnifie, How brave are those, who with their Engine, can Bring man to heaven, and heaven againe to man? —John… 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

• 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

• 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 2016

  Civil Society’s Role in a Public Health Crisis

  Jay Walker

  When the next major pandemic strikes, it will be accompanied by something never before seen in human history: an explosion of billions of texts, tweets, e-mails, blogs, photos, and videos rocketing across… 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

• 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