Humanizing Science and Engineering | Fall 2022 | Issues in Science and Technology

Science

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Then it was the future, though what’s arrivedisn’t what we had in mind, all chrome andcybernetics, when we set up exhibitsin the cafeteria for the judgesto review what we’d made of our… Read More

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The Dangers of Systems Illiteracy

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

In 1918, as the Great War was coming to an end after four bloody years of brutal conflict, an influenza pandemic began to ravage societies around the globe. While in Paris negotiating… Read More

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What Is the Big Picture in Carbon Removal Research?

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

The August 2022 passage of the Inflation Reduction Act enables a massive investment in reducing carbon emissions and mitigating their effects. It also focuses attention on strategies for removing carbon dioxide from… Read More

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Arctic Ice

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 14:32:14 +0000

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

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The Future of Global Science Relations

Issues — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

China’s scientific rise provokes strong global reactions. Research collaboration between North American and European partners with counterparts in China is now increasingly seen in light of securitization, asymmetrical dependencies, predatory practices, and… Read More

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The Wireless Body

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Holter’s original wearable health technology: the radioelectrocargiograph, c. 1957. Courtesy of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Nearly half the US adult population will pass out at some point in their lives.… Read More

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The Story Is Yours, Too

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Joe Feddersen Omak Lake 2, 2019; monoprint on paper with spray paint; 19 1/2 x 15 inches

Three figures dominate artist Joe Feddersen’s print Omak Lake 2: a deer, or… Read More

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The Grind of Infrastructure Maintenance

Jay Lloyd — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

If we were to try to define the molecules of infrastructure, how those molecules interact, and how their structures and functions result in the systems we rely on today, we’d have to… Read More

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Collaboration on the Mudflats

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

We began in 2006 as a group of researchers at the University of Maine who were trying to align our work with the needs of communities. Motivated in part by frustration with the… Read More

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Investing in European Innovation

Issues — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

It’s not (just) the economy, stupid!

When Daniel Spichtinger writes, we pay attention. But after reading “From Strength to Strength?” (Issues, Summer 2022), we wondered whether his analysis of the problem was… Read More

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