Infrastructure for a Stormy Future Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/34-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:17:08 +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 Infrastructure for a Stormy Future Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/34-2/ 32 32 From the Hill – Winter 2018 https://issues.org/from-the-hill-13/ https://issues.org/from-the-hill-13/#respond Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:37:06 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15460 The House of Representatives and the Senate spent most of 2017 turning the annual budget process on its head, with the result that at the end of December there is no official… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/from-the-hill-13/feed/ 0 Talk to the Hand https://issues.org/editors-journal-talk-to-the-hand/ https://issues.org/editors-journal-talk-to-the-hand/#respond Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:28:12 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15458 Friends, colleagues, and relatives from across the globe all seem to have the same questions: What is it like to be in Washington, DC, in the age of policy mayhem? What role… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editors-journal-talk-to-the-hand/feed/ 0 What Did I Just Buy? https://issues.org/book-review-what-did-i-just-buy/ https://issues.org/book-review-what-did-i-just-buy/#respond Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:03:36 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15486 We all do it. Click on that little button—the one that says “buy”—to purchase digital books, music, movies, and software online. What many of us don’t realize is that US courts have… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-what-did-i-just-buy/feed/ 0 Is the Bayh-Dole Act Stifling Biomedical Innovation? https://issues.org/perspective-is-the-bayh-dole-act-stifling-biomedical-innovation/ https://issues.org/perspective-is-the-bayh-dole-act-stifling-biomedical-innovation/#respond Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:45:48 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15466 The productivity of biomedical research has fallen dramatically during the past three decades. For example, Nicholas Bloom and colleagues, in a 2017 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, found that productivity… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-is-the-bayh-dole-act-stifling-biomedical-innovation/feed/ 0 The Second Coming of UK Industrial Strategy https://issues.org/the-second-coming-of-uk-industrial-strategy/ https://issues.org/the-second-coming-of-uk-industrial-strategy/#respond Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:22:35 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15474 Industrial strategy, as a strand of economic management, was killed forever by the turn to market liberalism in the 1980s. At least, that’s how it seemed in the United Kingdom, where the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-second-coming-of-uk-industrial-strategy/feed/ 0 Scaling Up Policy Innovations in the Federal Government: Lessons from the Trenches https://issues.org/perspective-scaling-up-policy-innovations-in-the-federal-government/ https://issues.org/perspective-scaling-up-policy-innovations-in-the-federal-government/#respond Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:08:03 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15464 Large bureaucracies such as those of the federal government are notoriously slow to innovate. But in recent years, new technology-enabled approaches to helping government meet its public obligations have begun to find… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-scaling-up-policy-innovations-in-the-federal-government/feed/ 0 Philosopher’s Corner: Make Science Great Again https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-make-science-great-again/ https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-make-science-great-again/#respond Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:00:07 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15468 Watching the March for Science this past April could give people the feeling that they had traveled back to simpler times. One woman carried a sign that read, “I can’t believe I… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-make-science-great-again/feed/ 0 Child Support in the Age of Complex Families https://issues.org/child-support-in-the-age-of-complex-families/ https://issues.org/child-support-in-the-age-of-complex-families/#respond Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:21:06 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15470 The American family doesn’t look like it used to—at least for the economically disadvantaged. Parents are often unmarried when their children are born. Unmarried couples’ unions are often unstable; they frequently split… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/child-support-in-the-age-of-complex-families/feed/ 0 TMI? https://issues.org/book-review-tmi/ https://issues.org/book-review-tmi/#respond Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:25:01 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15482 Because she has done justice to the morally challenging and politically explosive topic of the role of genetic testing in reproduction, the primary experience of reading Bonnie Rochman’s new book, The Gene … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-tmi/feed/ 0 Hiding in Plain Sight https://issues.org/book-review-hiding-in-plain-sight/ https://issues.org/book-review-hiding-in-plain-sight/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:00:42 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15484 Hiding the truth isn’t often praised. In an age of “fake news,” spam Twitter accounts, and sham Facebook groups, there is already plenty of concealment and disinformation to go around. But in… Read More

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