Views From the Inside | Spring 2021 | Issues in Science and Technology

A Higher Ed Maelstrom

Issues — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Kumble R. Subbaswamy has provided a useful guided tour of American public universities in the wake of the pandemic wreckage. His narrative, not surprisingly titled “Public Universities,” part of the postpandemic special… Read More

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Data for the People!

Issues — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

In “The Path to Better Health: Give People Their Data” (Issues, Winter 2021), Jason Cohen makes an important contribution to the discussion of data privacy.

Data privacy in the midst… Read More

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Making Roads Safer for Everyone

Issues — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:55:27 +0000

While I might quibble with a few of the details of “New Rules for Old Roads” (Issues, Winter 2021), by Megan S. Ryerson, Carrie S. Long, Joshua H. Davidson, and… Read More

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Missing Millions

Issues — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:48:25 +0000

Reflecting on William E. Spriggs’s article, titled “Economics,” part of the postpandemic special section (Issues, Winter 2021), led me to focus on his main point that “modern economics … greatly… Read More

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COVID and Disability

Issues — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 21:16:25 +0000

In her article, “Time,” part of the postpandemic special section (Issues, Winter 2021), Elizabeth Freeman observes that the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn us all into the alternate temporality that the… Read More

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Innovating Nurses

Issues — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:47:31 +0000

In “Innovating ‘In the Here and Now’” (Issues, Winter 2021), Lisa De Bode shares several accounts of nurses in the United States who leveraged their own innovative behaviors to problem… Read More

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Inside Science Politics

Jay Lloyd — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The United States is now experiencing the most important political debate about science policy since the years after World War II. This time around, the debate is driven by concerns that include… Read More

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A Catalyst for Innovation in the Flyover States

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The US government’s Small Business Innovation Research program and the related Small Business Technology Transfer program (which we’ll refer to collectively as “SBIR”) provide funding to small businesses nationwide to develop new… Read More

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Leyner on Love

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Reading Mark Leyner’s fiction is like entering an elevator where every button is labeled in menacing gibberish.

Here’s a typical paragraph of self-referential Leyner deconstruction from his new book, Last Orgy of … Read More

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Open to Experimentation

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

America is an especially philanthropic society. It has ranked number one on the World Giving Index for the last 10 years. A 2016 report found that annual charitable giving in the United… Read More

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