Postpandemic | Winter 2021 | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/37-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:10:36 +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 Postpandemic | Winter 2021 | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/37-2/ 32 32 Agricultural Cycles as Allegories https://issues.org/agricultural-cycles-as-allegories-david-hicks-gallery/ https://issues.org/agricultural-cycles-as-allegories-david-hicks-gallery/#respond Wed, 05 May 2021 00:19:37 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=29209 DAVID HICKS, Construction (Rose), ceramic and stainless steel, 2016

David Hicks creates ceramic sculptures inspired by nature and industrial agriculture. Growing up in California’s Central Valley, he was attracted to the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/agricultural-cycles-as-allegories-david-hicks-gallery/feed/ 0 AI and Jobs https://issues.org/debating-ai-automation-workforce-pasckewitz-patt-forum/ https://issues.org/debating-ai-automation-workforce-pasckewitz-patt-forum/#respond Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:42:14 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=29052 During my tenure as program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, I watched with admiration the efforts of John Paschkewitz and Dan Patt to explore human-AI teaming, and I applaud… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/debating-ai-automation-workforce-pasckewitz-patt-forum/feed/ 0 Building a Better Railroad https://issues.org/debating-railroad-safety-systems-ptc-nash-forum/ https://issues.org/debating-railroad-safety-systems-ptc-nash-forum/#respond Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:05:16 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=28717 Carl E. Nash’s article, “A Better Approach to Railroad Safety and Operation” (Issues, Fall 2020), reflects an incomplete understanding of positive train control (PTC) technology, leading to misstatements about the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/debating-railroad-safety-systems-ptc-nash-forum/feed/ 0 COVID-19 and Prisons https://issues.org/debating-covid-prison-mass-incarceration-reform-forum/ https://issues.org/debating-covid-prison-mass-incarceration-reform-forum/#respond Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:38:28 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=28683 As progressive prosecutors, we read “COVID-19 Exposes a Broken Prison System,” by Justin Berk, Alexandria Macmadu, Eliana Kaplowitz, and Josiah Rich (Issues, Fall 2020), with great interest. COVID-19’s rapid spread… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/debating-covid-prison-mass-incarceration-reform-forum/feed/ 0 China’s Green Dreams https://issues.org/debating-chinese-environmental-climate-policy-forum/ https://issues.org/debating-chinese-environmental-climate-policy-forum/#respond Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=28437 The ambitious “Chinese Dream” of modernization, wealth, and influence has taken an environmental turn, so it seems. From “ecological civilization” to the “sponge city,” the Chinese state promises a glorious future that… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/debating-chinese-environmental-climate-policy-forum/feed/ 0 Duyi Han: The Saints Wear White https://issues.org/duyi-han-digital-art/ https://issues.org/duyi-han-digital-art/#respond Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=28166 An outpouring of creative responses have given voice to suffering, loss, and trauma caused by the pandemic. For Duyi Han, the creative director of Doesn’t Come Out, a design studio in New York… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/duyi-han-digital-art/feed/ 0 Cross Section of SARS-CoV-2 Virus https://issues.org/david-goodsell-covid-19-virus-cross-section/ https://issues.org/david-goodsell-covid-19-virus-cross-section/#respond Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=28172 DAVID S. GOODSELL, Molecular Landscape: SARS-CoV-2 and Neutralizing Antibodies, 2020, watercolor, 13 x 10 inches, collection of the National Academy of Sciences.

In this watercolor painting, a cross section of the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/postpandemic/feed/ 0 Corona Series https://issues.org/corona-series-diane-burko-artwork/ https://issues.org/corona-series-diane-burko-artwork/#respond Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:24:17 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=27753 Diane Burko, Corona Series, 2020Diane Burko, Carbon/COVID, 2020Diane Burko, Carbon/COVID, 2020Diane Burko, USA COVID, 2020Diane Burko, July 2020, 2020Diane Burko, Early Spread, 2020Diane Burko, Corona Series, 2020Diane Burko, Corona Series, 2020… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/corona-series-diane-burko-artwork/feed/ 0 Natural Historians of the Industrial Landscape https://issues.org/hilla-bernd-becher-photography-industrial/ https://issues.org/hilla-bernd-becher-photography-industrial/#respond Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=27425 Hilla and Bernd Becher were a collaborative duo of German conceptual art photographers who profoundly changed the way artists saw the post-World War II landscape. For more than 40 years, they studied… Read More

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