The 35th Anniversary Issue Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/36-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:21:22 +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 The 35th Anniversary Issue Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/36-1/ 32 32 Science and Society https://issues.org/science-and-society/ https://issues.org/science-and-society/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21752 The Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s 2018
announcement of the birth of twin girls whom he had genetically modified to be
resistant to HIV stunned
both the scientific community and society at large.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/science-and-society/feed/ 0 Climate Emergency Politics Is Dangerous https://issues.org/climate-emergency-politics-is-dangerous/ https://issues.org/climate-emergency-politics-is-dangerous/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:00:07 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21750 A widespread popular movement over the past
year or so has been insisting that ongoing climate change warrants the formal
declaration of a “climate
emergency.” This movement has been most salient in… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/climate-emergency-politics-is-dangerous/feed/ 0 An Unsettling History https://issues.org/an-unsettling-history/ https://issues.org/an-unsettling-history/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:00:11 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21740 In the days and weeks after the horrific dual
mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in early August 2019, the
national conversation focused once again—how disturbing that phrase, “once… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/an-unsettling-history/feed/ 0 Dental Exam https://issues.org/dental-exam/ https://issues.org/dental-exam/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:00:02 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21745 The Tales Teeth Tell aims to introduce readers to the wonderful world of teeth and what they can tell us about human evolution. In the field of evolutionary anthropology, teeth have long… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/dental-exam/feed/ 0 Fragmentation https://issues.org/fragmentation/ https://issues.org/fragmentation/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:00:01 +0000 https://issues.org/on-earth-imaging-technology-and-the-natural-world/ Seth Clark’s collages and sculpture focus on deteriorating architecture. Usually designed for permanence, buildings are constantly being challenged by geological, meteorological, and other external forces. Clark enjoys studying the way they fall… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/fragmentation/feed/ 0 Should We Privatize Censorship? https://issues.org/should-we-privatize-censorship/ https://issues.org/should-we-privatize-censorship/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:00:45 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21748 Over the past few decades, the United States
has increasingly relied on the private sector to carry out missions that were
once considered largely the mission of the state. There are now… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/should-we-privatize-censorship/feed/ 0 An Innovation Agenda for Hard-to-Decarbonize Energy Sectors https://issues.org/an-innovation-agenda-for-hard-to-decarbonize-energy-sectors/ https://issues.org/an-innovation-agenda-for-hard-to-decarbonize-energy-sectors/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:00:02 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21738 Technological innovation is essential for
fighting climate change. In the United States, both political parties actually
agree on this key point, but neither party has yet developed an innovation
agenda that matches… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-kids-are-online/feed/ 0 Socrates Untenured: The Social Media Problem Is Worse Than You Think https://issues.org/the-social-media-problem/ https://issues.org/the-social-media-problem/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:00:07 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21735 In 2016, the Internet Research Agency (IRA),
the organization responsible for much of the Russian state-sponsored social
media campaign documented in the Mueller report, created a Facebook group
called “Being Patriotic.” In… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-social-media-problem/feed/ 0 Critical Rejection https://issues.org/critical-rejection/ https://issues.org/critical-rejection/#respond Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:00:22 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21732 In her 1930 essay “On
Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf laments the absence of a literature of illness.
“Considering how common illness is,” she writes, “how tremendous the spiritual
change that it brings,… Read More

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