Summit on Human Gene Editing Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/32-3/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:30:14 +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 Summit on Human Gene Editing Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/32-3/ 32 32 Transforming the Active Orientation https://issues.org/transforming-the-active-orientation/ https://issues.org/transforming-the-active-orientation/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14107 Our ambitions are high. We have a long list of desiderata that, in effect, entail re-engineering much of the physical and social world around us, even the self. We Americans are keen… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/transforming-the-active-orientation/feed/ 0 A Tangled Web https://issues.org/book-review-a-tangled-web/ https://issues.org/book-review-a-tangled-web/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14109 The Internet certainly seemed a good idea at the time. What’s wrong with linking top academics through their computers so they can share big thoughts? And in these democratic times, extending those… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-a-tangled-web/feed/ 0 Chemical Solutions https://issues.org/book-review-chemical-solutions/ https://issues.org/book-review-chemical-solutions/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14111 Ken Geiser, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and founder of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, has written another excellent book, Chemicals Without Harm: Policies for a Sustainable World… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-chemical-solutions/feed/ 0 Posthumans’ Inhumanity to Man https://issues.org/book-review-posthumans-inhumanity-to-man/ https://issues.org/book-review-posthumans-inhumanity-to-man/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14113 Posthumans’ Inhumanity to Man
In 1963, when the still-new science of molecular biology was reaping its first big harvest, the great bacterial geneticist Joshua Lederberg looked ahead to what the field might… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-posthumans-inhumanity-to-man/feed/ 0 Forum – Spring 2016 https://issues.org/forum-30/ https://issues.org/forum-30/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14076 Purposeful science
In “Fact Check: Scientific Research in the National Interest Act” (Issues, Winter 2016), Congressman Lamar Smith critiques the concerns presented by Democrats, scientists, and a number of social… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/forum-30/feed/ 0 Radical by Design https://issues.org/book-review-radical-by-design/ https://issues.org/book-review-radical-by-design/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14115 The term “Big Science” is attributed to Alvin Weinberg, the former head of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Clinton Laboratories, ORNL’s original name during the Manhattan Project, had produced materials… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-radical-by-design/feed/ 0 From the Hill – Spring 2016 https://issues.org/from-the-hill-8/ https://issues.org/from-the-hill-8/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14080 Congress advances spending bills for NSF, NASA, Energy, and USDA
In mid-May, the House Appropriations Committee approved FY 2017 spending bills covering the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Agriculture,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/from-the-hill-8/feed/ 0 Wonder https://issues.org/wonder/ https://issues.org/wonder/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=16726 WONDER, the debut exhibition at the newly renovated Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, celebrates the opening of the historic building with immersive installations by nine leading contemporary artists—Jennifer Angus,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/wonder/feed/ 0 Data-Driven Science Policy https://issues.org/perspective-data-driven-science-policy/ https://issues.org/perspective-data-driven-science-policy/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14082 A critical challenge for science policy decision makers is determining how to spend limited resources most productively. To do so, one must have a basic understanding of the inner workings of the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-data-driven-science-policy/feed/ 0 Super-Muscly Pigs https://issues.org/perspective-super-muscly-pigs/ https://issues.org/perspective-super-muscly-pigs/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=14084 Animal research is moving rapidly in two, divergent directions. Research on animal cognition, behavior, and welfare is teaching us that many animal species have complex cognitive and emotional lives and needs. Such… Read More

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