Fixing the Disconnects - Winter 2022 https://issues.org/issue/38-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:35:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Fixing the Disconnects - Winter 2022 https://issues.org/issue/38-2/ 32 32 Wired and CERN https://issues.org/wired-cern-steve-miller-gallery/ https://issues.org/wired-cern-steve-miller-gallery/#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2022 18:18:46 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=34880 Quantum System, 2020, 39 x 69 inches

On a trip to Brazil, artist Steve Miller was captivated by the tangled web of power lines in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, the largest… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/wired-cern-steve-miller-gallery/feed/ 0 Reconceptualizing the Public Research University https://issues.org/reconceptualizing-public-research-university-dabars/ https://issues.org/reconceptualizing-public-research-university-dabars/#respond Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=33469 Engineering education in the United States is “stuck in 1955,” according to a recent assessment by Sheryl Sorby, Norman L. Fortenberry, and Gary Bertoline of the American Society for Engineering Education. But… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/reconceptualizing-public-research-university-dabars/feed/ 0 Improving the Quality of Biomedical Research https://issues.org/improving-the-quality-of-biomedical-research/ https://issues.org/improving-the-quality-of-biomedical-research/#respond Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:03:12 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=34446 In a 1994 editorial in the British Medical Journal on the scandal of poor medical research, the medical statistician Doug Altman stated: “The poor quality of much medical research is widely acknowledged,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/improving-the-quality-of-biomedical-research/feed/ 0 Where Conversations Happen and Values Emerge https://issues.org/religion-climate-change-laudato-si-clingerman-veldman/ https://issues.org/religion-climate-change-laudato-si-clingerman-veldman/#respond Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=33487 In the weeks before the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, religious leaders including Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby issued a statement arguing that faith… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/religion-climate-change-laudato-si-clingerman-veldman/feed/ 0 Which Way to Run? https://issues.org/which-way-to-run-tsunami-warning-forum/ https://issues.org/which-way-to-run-tsunami-warning-forum/#respond Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=34356 “Run Uphill for a Tsunami, Downhill for a Landslide” (Issues, Fall 2021), by Lisa Busch, Robert Lempert, Max Izenberg, and Annette Patton, is useful in addressing the complexities of landslides… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/which-way-to-run-tsunami-warning-forum/feed/ 0 New Ways to Get to High Ground https://issues.org/benefit-cost-analysis-sustainability-resilience-helgeson-li/ https://issues.org/benefit-cost-analysis-sustainability-resilience-helgeson-li/#respond Mon, 14 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=33478 When local officials in Port Orford, Oregon, a small coastal town 60 miles north of California, were planning how to address the threat posed by tsunamis, they were surprised to learn that… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/benefit-cost-analysis-sustainability-resilience-helgeson-li/feed/ 0 Modernizing Privacy Risk Assessment https://issues.org/modernizing-privacy-risk-assessment-shapiro-forum/ https://issues.org/modernizing-privacy-risk-assessment-shapiro-forum/#respond Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=34304 I have only one quibble with Stuart Shapiro’s article, “Time to Modernize Privacy Risk Assessment” (Issues, Fall 2021), and I’ll come to it in a minute. Broadly, Shapiro’s analysis is… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/modernizing-privacy-risk-assessment-shapiro-forum/feed/ 0 Astonishingly Hyperconnected https://issues.org/astonishingly-hyperconnected-biodiversity-loss-climate-change-kearney/ https://issues.org/astonishingly-hyperconnected-biodiversity-loss-climate-change-kearney/#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=33476 The dual problems of climate change and biodiversity loss are interconnected and are among the most urgent scientific and social issues of our time. Yet until recently they have largely been treated… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/astonishingly-hyperconnected-biodiversity-loss-climate-change-kearney/feed/ 0 Invisible Fish https://issues.org/invisible-fish-poem-harjo/ https://issues.org/invisible-fish-poem-harjo/#respond Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=34260 Invisible fish swim this ghost ocean now described by waves of sand, by water-worn rock. Soon the fish will learn to walk. Then humans will come ashore and paint dreams on the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/invisible-fish-poem-harjo/feed/ 0 Involving the Public in Space Missions https://issues.org/public-engagement-nasa-space-missions-kaminski-forum/ https://issues.org/public-engagement-nasa-space-missions-kaminski-forum/#respond Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=34242 Federal agencies with science and technology related missions should pay heed to Amy Kaminski’s argument, made in “Making Space for Everyone” (Issues, Fall 2021), for more public engagement. I want to… Read More

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