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Climate Models as Economic Guides: Scientific Challenge or Quixotic Quest?

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

In the polarized climate change debate, cost-benefit analyses of policy options are taking on an increasingly influential role. These analyses have been presented by authoritative scholars as a useful contribution to the… Read More

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Pythia of Science

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

Sophia wakes to find her SocialStream full of supportive texts, toots, bleets, and bumps, including one from Noah.
gr8 luck today, babe!
His message grates her, negating the positive vibes from her… Read More

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Have Universities Overbuilt Biomedical Research Facilities?

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

In a September 10, 2010, Science editorial, Bruce Alberts called attention to what he perceived to be an overbuilding of biomedical research facilities by the nation’s universities and medical schools, driven by… Read More

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Climate Redux: Welcome to the Anthropocene

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

There are few topics as politically and ideologically contentious as anthropogenic climate change and the possibility of responding by deploying geoengineering technologies. Despite, or because of, all the Sturm und Drang,… Read More

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Machine Smart

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

The subject of intelligent machines that decide that they don’t have much use for us has haunted our species at least since golems first were mentioned in the Talmud. And more recently,… Read More

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A New Model for the American Research University

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

Headlines and pundits proclaiming a crisis in American higher education seem to proliferate on a daily basis. Accounts of skyrocketing sticker prices at our nation’s colleges and universities vie for attention with… Read More

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Where Does it Hurt?

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

Pain compels sufferers to “pay attention.” Suddenly, the person in pain becomes aware of her body—the clutching at the throat, the rough thump-thump in the region of the heart, the rumbling of… Read More

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Science Fiction? Yes!

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

In the Spring 2014 Issues, we published our first science fiction story. Physicist Gregory Benford’s story “Eagle” explored how radical environmentalists might respond to the launch of a geoengineering project to… Read More

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Forum – Spring 2015

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

Demonstrable energy
In “Closing the Energy-Demonstration Gap” (Issues, Winter 2015), Richard Lester and David Hart have reinvigorated the national debate about how we can fund and build large-scale energy demonstration… Read More

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From the Hill – Spring 2015

Issues — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

“From the Hill” is adapted from the newsletter Science and Technology in Congress, published by the Office of Government Relations of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (www.aaas.org) in Washington,… Read More

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