Climate and Energy: The Outliers Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/32-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 15 Jul 2022 23:17:35 +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: The Outliers Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/32-2/ 32 32 A Roadmap for US Nuclear Energy Innovation https://issues.org/a-roadmap-for-u-s-nuclear-energy-innovation/ https://issues.org/a-roadmap-for-u-s-nuclear-energy-innovation/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13832 The future role of nuclear energy is attracting new attention. Several recent climate policy assessments have concluded that meeting the world’s growing appetite for energy while achieving deep reductions in global greenhouse… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/a-roadmap-for-u-s-nuclear-energy-innovation/feed/ 3 What’s the Big Idea? https://issues.org/whats-the-big-idea/ https://issues.org/whats-the-big-idea/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13834 I am a venture capitalist and have been for 27 years. Trained in nuclear engineering in the 1970s, I worked in that profession until 1988, when I joined Venrock, the private venture… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/whats-the-big-idea/feed/ 0 Better Data for Better Mental Health Services https://issues.org/better-data-for-better-mental-health-services/ https://issues.org/better-data-for-better-mental-health-services/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13836 In 1948, Mary Jane Ward’s best-selling semi-autobiographical novel, The Snake Pit, brought widespread attention to the deplorable conditions in state psychiatric hospitals. Subsequently made into an Academy Award-winning movie, the novel’s vivid… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/better-data-for-better-mental-health-services/feed/ 0 The Search for Schizophrenia Genes https://issues.org/the-search-for-schizophrenia-genes/ https://issues.org/the-search-for-schizophrenia-genes/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13838 To gain insight into the biological basis of disease, President Obama launched the Precision Medicine Initiative in January 2015. A major aspiration of the program is to identify the genetic underpinnings of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-search-for-schizophrenia-genes/feed/ 0 Citizen Engineers at the Fenceline https://issues.org/citizen-engineers-at-the-fenceline/ https://issues.org/citizen-engineers-at-the-fenceline/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13840 Environmental regulators would do a better job protecting air quality and public health if they worked with local communities.
On August 22, 1994, the Unocal refinery in Rodeo, California, along the north… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/citizen-engineers-at-the-fenceline/feed/ 0 The Fictional Age https://issues.org/the-fictional-age/ https://issues.org/the-fictional-age/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13842 Turns out the cute boy from history class is a complete drug-head. Can’t even write a Fictional Age paper. Or won’t. I don’t know which is more nauseating.
“You never got concentric?”… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-fictional-age/feed/ 0 Questions of Fairness https://issues.org/book-review-questions-of-fairness/ https://issues.org/book-review-questions-of-fairness/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13844 This is a highly useful and aptly titled book, virtually a one-volume education in the array of normative challenges posed by the various aspects of our global energy regime. That “regime” is… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-questions-of-fairness/feed/ 0 No, Really, Why Are We Waiting? https://issues.org/book-review-no-really-why-are-we-waiting/ https://issues.org/book-review-no-really-why-are-we-waiting/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13846 British economist Nicholas Stern’s Why Are We Waiting? revolves around an ethical argument he made a decade ago on the economics of climate change in his famous “Stern Review.” Stern pushes total… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-no-really-why-are-we-waiting/feed/ 0 Forum – Winter 2016 https://issues.org/forum-29/ https://issues.org/forum-29/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13814 Incarceration matters
In “The Effects of Mass Incarceration on Communities of Color” (Issues, Fall 2015), Robert D. Crutchfield and Gregory A. Weeks cite “coercive mobility” as a key driver of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/forum-29/feed/ 0 A Cautionary Tale https://issues.org/book-review-a-cautionary-tale/ https://issues.org/book-review-a-cautionary-tale/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13848 People are causing climate to change and it poses serious risks to society. Although there are many options for dealing with it—including some that could be tailored to fit smoothly with virtually… Read More

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