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Powerful Knowledge

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The animating questions behind this timely, concise, and ambitious book are immediately compelling: How did the persistent partnership between science and the modern nation-state arise and evolve around the world over the… Read More

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Whatever Human Makes

Jay Lloyd — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The view out my porthole this morning is slate gray sea against a backdrop of glacial ice and heavy white clouds. Here in the Antarctic, one could be forgiven for thinking nothing… Read More

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Socrates Untenured: Ethics, Experts, and the Public in the Synthetic Age

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Three tools have transformed biotechnology over the past decade and a half. Gene reading has made it possible to quickly sequence the genome of any living creature. Gene synthesis has made it… Read More

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Inside the Gig Economy

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Alex Rosenblat’s Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work examines the ride-hailing company Uber and the processes it uses to conduct its business operations. Rosenblat surveys the experiences of Uber’s… Read More

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Unintended Beauty

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The human mind is capable of extraordinary things. We create systems, structures and machines that allow us to provide for our lives and answer our questions about the universe. Machines tell the … Read More

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The Changing Temptations of Science

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

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The changes in science over the past century have outpaced society’s images of science, of what sort of activity it is, and of what scientists are and do. Have… Read More

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Shutting the Door

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

It’s something of a cliché to observe, as William R. Kerr does in The Gift of Global Talent (and as I have in Issues), that over the past 70 years or… Read More

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Between the Leviathans

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

When Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited Washington, DC, in September 2019, he made one of his major policy announcements at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s headquarters. Citing NASA’s “inspirational campaign… Read More

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A New Model for Increasing Diversity in STEM Faculty

Jay Lloyd — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In 2018, I became the first woman of African descent to receive tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Georgia State University…. My two former PhD students—both … Read More

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Time, Place, & Identity

Jay Lloyd — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Born in Mochudi, Botswana, the artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum merges ideas of ancient mythologies with scientific theories in her work. Sunstrum is interested in topics such as the origins of time, geological… Read More

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