Climate and Energy Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/33-4/ The best minds on the most important topics. Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:06:35 +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 Climate and Energy Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/33-4/ 32 32 No Time for Rubbernecking https://issues.org/editors-journal-no-time-for-rubbernecking/ https://issues.org/editors-journal-no-time-for-rubbernecking/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:13:38 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15047 Among the most annoying driving experiences is to endure a long traffic jam only to discover that the cause of the delay is not an accident on your side of the road,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editors-journal-no-time-for-rubbernecking/feed/ 0 Publish and Perish https://issues.org/perspective-publish-and-perish/ https://issues.org/perspective-publish-and-perish/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:11:02 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15053 Two laboratories thought they’d found the perfect workaround to the ethically thorny issue of using stem cells from human embryos for research. In 1999 and 2000, they reported that they’d figured out… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-publish-and-perish/feed/ 0 From the Hill – Summer 2017 https://issues.org/from-the-hill-12/ https://issues.org/from-the-hill-12/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:26:39 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15049 Trump Budget Proposal: Gloomy, but Just a Proposal
The eyes of the research community are focused on the Trump administration’s proposed FY 2018 budget, which was released in May, and its fate… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/from-the-hill-12/feed/ 0 A Coming of (Information) Age Story https://issues.org/book-review-a-coming-of-information-age-story/ https://issues.org/book-review-a-coming-of-information-age-story/#respond Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:36:04 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15078 What was cybernetics? As Ronald Kline tells it in his new intellectual history, The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, cybernetics suffered from being too many… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-a-coming-of-information-age-story/feed/ 0 Culture Research https://issues.org/book-review-culture-research/ https://issues.org/book-review-culture-research/#respond Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:28:17 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15072 Vaccinations, now a cornerstone of public health programs worldwide, are one of science and public health’s most impressive success stories. Ironically, it is precisely because immunization is so effective at preventing disease… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-culture-research/feed/ 0 The End of the Line https://issues.org/book-review-the-end-of-the-line/ https://issues.org/book-review-the-end-of-the-line/#respond Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:20:15 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15075 Innovation is almost universally desired but almost always misunderstood. Confusion abounds over such basic tasks as how to describe how innovation works and even what counts as innovation. If culture conditions innovation,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-the-end-of-the-line/feed/ 0 Philosopher’s Corner: Genome Fidelity and the American Chestnut https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-genome-fidelity-and-the-american-chestnut/ https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-genome-fidelity-and-the-american-chestnut/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:48:40 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15059 A full-sized American chestnut was a sight to behold: a hundred feet in height, a trunk 10 feet in diameter, covered in white bracts of funky, acrid-smelling flowers. But on a walk… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-genome-fidelity-and-the-american-chestnut/feed/ 0 Rethinking the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide https://issues.org/rethinking-the-social-cost-of-carbon-dioxide/ https://issues.org/rethinking-the-social-cost-of-carbon-dioxide/#respond Mon, 21 Aug 2017 18:07:39 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15061 The standard benefit-cost methodology that is used to calculate marginal costs of environmental regulations should not be used for long-lasting greenhouse gases.

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]]> https://issues.org/rethinking-the-social-cost-of-carbon-dioxide/feed/ 0 The Age of Weaponized Narrative, or, Where Have You Gone, Walter Cronkite? https://issues.org/the-age-of-weaponized-narrative-or-where-have-you-gone-walter-cronkite/ https://issues.org/the-age-of-weaponized-narrative-or-where-have-you-gone-walter-cronkite/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:41:38 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15067 When I was in college many years ago, the concept of “narrative” was simple: it was a story told by a literary character, or, more broadly, the story itself. Starting with the… Read More

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