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Codeswitch

Issues — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

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

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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars)

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Retreating From Rising Waters

Issues — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

“Disaster recovery” is a generous concept, in theory. But the reality is much muddier, and the issues plaguing the communities that Nicholas Pinter describes in “True Stories of Managed Retreat From Rising… Read More

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Time to Modernize Privacy Risk Assessment

Issues — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

In 2018, media reports revealed that a company called Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from millions of Facebook users, creating psychometric profiles and models that were then used for political manipulation. For… Read More

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Managing Retreat Equitably

Issues — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

In “A Concerted and Equitable Approach to Managed Retreat” (Issues, Summer 2021), Kavitha Chintam, Christopher Jackson, Fiona Dunn, Caitlyn Hall, Sindhu Nathan, and Bernat Navaro-Serer call for expanded efforts by… Read More

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Making Space for Everyone

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

The tenor of spaceflight has changed. In the spring of 2020, the gloom of COVID-19 was temporarily dispelled by two NASA astronauts donning restyled flight suits before launching aboard Space X’s Dragon… Read More

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Ethics in Animal Research

Issues — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

It was reassuring to read Jane Johnson’s frank assessment of the limitations of animal research, presented in “Lost in Translation: Why Animal Research Fails to Deliver on Its Promise” (Issues,… Read More

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The Humbling Complexity of the Hard Problem

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

It’s always unsettling to wake up in the morning and learn that you slept unawares through a massive thunderstorm or the cat’s house-wide rampage. It’s a more quotidian version of what people… Read More

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An AI That’s Not Artificial at All

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Despite the fact that geopolitical tensions had been steadily increasing over the last week and the entire base was on high alert, the shock and violence of the missile attack on the … Read More

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Digital Learning and Employment Records

Issues — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

In “Everything You’ve Ever Learned” (Issues, Summer 2021), Isabel Cardenas-Navia and Shalin Jyotishi present a compelling and timely argument for the important role digital learning and employment records (LERs) can… Read More

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