What Is To Be Done? The Failures of COVID-19 Response and What Next

Visions of the Space Frontier

Jay Lloyd — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Chinese citizens cheer for a Soviet rocket in a poster from 1957, reflecting the friendly relationship that would come to an end only a few years later. A Prometheus-like figure reaches for… Read More

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Unknown Knowns

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000

In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, defense secretary to President George W. Bush, famously said of uncertainties around whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: “There are known knowns; there are things we know… Read More

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An Elusive Consensus

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

A few months into my medical training, I heard Fred Sanger, the Nobel prize-winning biochemist, describe a miracle—DNA sequencing in his lab—and Ray White, a pioneer in human genetics, excitedly reveal the… Read More

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The Mystery of China’s Glorious Green Dreams

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

The world’s ability to limit atmospheric warming from greenhouse gases depends very much on China’s will and ability to control the carbon emitted by its growing economy. Currently the country is responsible… Read More

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Endless Industrial Policy

Jay Lloyd — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Industrial policy refers to deliberate government actions that affect economic activity more narrowly than the usual run of macroeconomic measures—for instance, by guiding and perhaps forcing investment and innovation in particular technologies… Read More

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Blank and Pitiless

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Steve Fuller grasps the apocalyptic spirit of our times. Millenarian religions seem to have been always present in human culture; now add to this human-caused environmental changes so great that they potentially… Read More

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ArtSciConverge at Sagehen Creek Field Station

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:27:09 +0000

STPMJ Architects, “Invisible Barn,” photographed by Faerthen Felix, 2015.

Artists have participated since 2011 in the ArtSciConverge residency program at the University of California, Berkeley’s Sagehen Creek Field Station in the Sierra… Read More

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Can AI Make Your Job More Interesting?

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Sixty years ago, in an era of computer mainframes and slide rules, J. C. R. Licklider of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) outlined a bold vision of a mutually beneficial… Read More

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A Better Approach to Railroad Safety and Operation

Jay Lloyd — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Train derailments and collisions are rare, but when they happen they can be catastrophic, particularly when the trains are carrying flammable or otherwise dangerous chemicals. In South Carolina on January 6, 2005,… Read More

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Artologica

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Michele Banks, Indigo Coronavirus, 2020, ink on Yupo paper, 12 x 16 inches.

Paintings inspired by COVID-19

Michele Banks is a Washington, DC-based artist who finds inspiration in how viruses and… Read More

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