Who Benefits From Science? Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/36-4/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:07:08 +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 Who Benefits From Science? Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/36-4/ 32 32 Naming Nature https://issues.org/naming-nature-james-prosek-trout-art-artifact-artifice/ https://issues.org/naming-nature-james-prosek-trout-art-artifact-artifice/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=24506 James Prosek, “What Once Was Is No Longer (1851)” (2019)

As an undergraduate at Yale University in the 1990s, I read the seventeenth-century English poet John Milton’s Paradise Lost for the first… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/naming-nature-james-prosek-trout-art-artifact-artifice/feed/ 0 Socrates Untenured: New Wine and New Bottles https://issues.org/socrates-untenured-new-wine-new-bottles-humanities-sciences-frodeman-covid/ https://issues.org/socrates-untenured-new-wine-new-bottles-humanities-sciences-frodeman-covid/#respond Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=23989 Society will be changed by COVID-19. But how and to what degree? Rather than being a shock the size of 9/11 or the Great Recession, COVID-19 may be destined to become a… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/socrates-untenured-new-wine-new-bottles-humanities-sciences-frodeman-covid/feed/ 0 A Scathing but Empty Critique https://issues.org/a-scathing-but-empty-critique-transhumanism-nature-and-the-ends-of-science-frodeman/ https://issues.org/a-scathing-but-empty-critique-transhumanism-nature-and-the-ends-of-science-frodeman/#respond Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=24020 The philosopher Robert Frodeman is not happy with the state of late modernity, the current era that some sociologists see as characterized by unregulated market capitalism, disruptive technoscientific advances, and unstable personal… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/a-scathing-but-empty-critique-transhumanism-nature-and-the-ends-of-science-frodeman/feed/ 0 The Race to the Top https://issues.org/race-to-the-top-david-sainsbury-national-innovation-policy-neoclassical-economics/ https://issues.org/race-to-the-top-david-sainsbury-national-innovation-policy-neoclassical-economics/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:32:24 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=24003 Since 1990, nations of the Group of Seven, comprising the world’s largest industrialized economies, have all shown declining rates of economic growth. Over the same period, growth in many developing countries has… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/race-to-the-top-david-sainsbury-national-innovation-policy-neoclassical-economics/feed/ 0 China as Mirror https://issues.org/china-as-mirror-can-science-and-technology-save-china-review/ https://issues.org/china-as-mirror-can-science-and-technology-save-china-review/#respond Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=24018 It has become common for Americans to demonize China as a dragon of economic and viral infections that needs to be taught a lesson. The contemporary American love-hate relationship with China is thrown into new relief when it comes to science and technology.

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]]> https://issues.org/china-as-mirror-can-science-and-technology-save-china-review/feed/ 0 Save America’s Dying Cities https://issues.org/americas-dying-cities-carl-schramm-revitalizing-competitiveness/ https://issues.org/americas-dying-cities-carl-schramm-revitalizing-competitiveness/#respond Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=23999 What accounts for the success and continued thriving of some cities, and the decline of others? During the decade when I ran the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, as we developed a data-based… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/americas-dying-cities-carl-schramm-revitalizing-competitiveness/feed/ 0 Doing the Work https://issues.org/doing-the-work-data-feminism-review/ https://issues.org/doing-the-work-data-feminism-review/#respond Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=24016 In the fall of 2019, when I could still be in the same room as my students, we took time out of math class to work on a biography project. In our… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/doing-the-work-data-feminism-review/feed/ 0 Public Value Science https://issues.org/public-value-science-innovation-equity-bozeman/ https://issues.org/public-value-science-innovation-equity-bozeman/#respond Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=23993 STEF at 75

Why should the United States government support science? That question was apparently settled 75 years ago by Vannevar Bush in Science, the Endless Frontier: “Since health, well-being, and… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/public-value-science-innovation-equity-bozeman/feed/ 0 Complicating the Narrative https://issues.org/complicating-the-narrative-michaels-and-oreskes-review/ https://issues.org/complicating-the-narrative-michaels-and-oreskes-review/#respond Fri, 07 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=24005 Recent books by David Michaels, an epidemiologist and former assistant secretary of labor at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University, address the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/complicating-the-narrative-michaels-and-oreskes-review/feed/ 0 Can Automated Vehicles Prove Themselves to Be Safe? https://issues.org/can-automated-driverless-vehicles-be-safe/ https://issues.org/can-automated-driverless-vehicles-be-safe/#respond Mon, 03 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=24001 With more than 40 companies racing to put automated vehicles (AVs) on the road, why does commercial availability seem always just over the horizon? Safety is among the most compelling arguments for… Read More

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