The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/35-4/ The best minds on the most important topics. Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:13:55 +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 Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/35-4/ 32 32 Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial https://issues.org/nature-cooper-hewitt-design-triennial/ https://issues.org/nature-cooper-hewitt-design-triennial/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:55:33 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21587 Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, coorganized by Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Design Museum, and Cube design museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands, features over 60 projects to demonstrate how designers are collaborating with scientists,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/nature-cooper-hewitt-design-triennial/feed/ 0 Hardwired https://issues.org/hardwired/ https://issues.org/hardwired/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:00:21 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=18864 Adding to a prolific career of scientific
writing, the psychologist and geneticist Robert Plomin has produced an
extremely readable and interesting book about the role of genetics in our
lives. Blueprint: How … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/hardwired/feed/ 0 Deciding the Facebook Question https://issues.org/deciding-the-facebook-question/ https://issues.org/deciding-the-facebook-question/#respond Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:00:37 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=18849 Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google: the
FAANGs. We have one big fat reason for loving them: they provide us with
overpowering convenience. Thanks to the FAANGs, just choosing to do something
is… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/deciding-the-facebook-question/feed/ 0 Artificial Intelligence for a Social World https://issues.org/artificial-intelligence-for-a-social-world/ https://issues.org/artificial-intelligence-for-a-social-world/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:00:14 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=18856 Will artificial intelligence (AI) mean the end
of social interaction? I want to say right away—so that you can stop reading if
this disappoints you—that I’m not going to answer that question.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/artificial-intelligence-for-a-social-world/feed/ 0 Studio + Laboratory: Workshops of Knowledge https://issues.org/studiolaboratory/ https://issues.org/studiolaboratory/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:47:10 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=21444 Be it artistic works or scientific discoveries, the end results are
generally all that remain visible of the creative process. What happens behind
closed doors in the laboratory or studio tends to… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/studiolaboratory/feed/ 0 Clean Power From the Pentagon https://issues.org/clean-power-from-the-pentagon/ https://issues.org/clean-power-from-the-pentagon/#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:00:22 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=18858 The Department of Defense (DOD) in 2019 will
invest $1.6 billion in research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E)
that is directly related to energy. The magnitude of the investment reflects
the importance… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/clean-power-from-the-pentagon/feed/ 0 “A Planet-Changing Idea” https://issues.org/a-planet-changing-idea/ https://issues.org/a-planet-changing-idea/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:00:45 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=18853 The Environment: A
History of the Idea opens with a seemingly facetious query: “The environment
is all around us…. Where did it come from?” In fact, the authors have deeper
things on… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/a-planet-changing-idea/feed/ 0 Lessons From the He Jiankui Incident https://issues.org/lessons-from-the-he-jiankui-incident/ https://issues.org/lessons-from-the-he-jiankui-incident/#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:00:54 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=18851 He Jiankui’s announcement on November 26, 2018,
that he had used CRISPR technology to alter the genes of two embryos that
resulted in births shocked everyone in China, especially scientists and regulators.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/lessons-from-the-he-jiankui-incident/feed/ 0 Research Ethics From the Inside https://issues.org/research-ethics-from-the-inside/ https://issues.org/research-ethics-from-the-inside/#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:00:33 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=18862 The Constant
Gardener, a suspenseful 2001 novel by John Le Carré (later made into a popular
film), centers around a pharmaceutical company that, to beat the competition to
market, rushed a… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/research-ethics-from-the-inside/feed/ 0 Keep on Truckin’ https://issues.org/keep-on-truckin/ https://issues.org/keep-on-truckin/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:00:24 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=18845 I began working at Issues in mid-1987, and 32 years later it’s … what?—sobering?
enlightening? depressing? bewildering? astonishing?—to reflect on how science,
technology, and health policy has and hasn’t changed. Many topics… Read More

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