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Little Cell, Big Science: The Rise (and Fall?) of Yeast Research

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

NIKI VERMEULEN
MOLLY BAIN

Trying to add another chapter to the long history of yeast studies, scientists at the cutting edge of knowledge confront the painful realities of science funding.

Manchester, the… Read More

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Collective Forgetting: Inside the Smithsonian’s Curatorial Crisis

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

As the hands on my watch hit 11 o’clock, I was still fighting with the stubborn dust clinging to my chocolate-colored pants. The dust was winning. I knew it was unlikely the… Read More

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Natural Histories

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library
In a time of the internet, social media networks, and smart phones, when miraculous devices demand our attention with beeps, buzzes, and spiffy… Read More

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Final Frontier vs. Fruitful Frontier: The Case for Increasing Ocean Exploration

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Possible solutions to the world’s energy, food, environmental, and other problems are far more likely to be found in nearby oceans than in distant space.

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Breaking the Climate Deadlock

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Developing a broad and effective portfolio of technology options could provide the common ground on which conservatives and liberals agree.

The public debate over climate policy has become increasingly polarized, with both… Read More

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How Hurricane Sandy Tamed the Bureaucracy

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Remember Hurricane Irene? It pushed across New England in August 2011, leaving a trail of at least 45 deaths and $7 million in damages. But just over a year later, even before… Read More

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What’s My (Cell) Line?

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

What a strange and useful book this is!
It looks like much ado about not much—just three experiments conducted at zoos on cross-species cloning (in banteng, gaur, and African wild-cat). Yet the… Read More

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Archives – Summer 2014

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Twister
To create his self-portrait, Twister, Dan Collins, a professor of intermedia in the Herberger Institute School of Art at Arizona State University (ASU), spun on a turntable while being digitally… Read More

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Book Review: Climate Perceptions

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed—and What It Means for Our Future
by Dale Jamieson. Oxford University Press, New York, 260 pp.

Did climate change cause… Read More

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Forum – Summer 2014

Issues — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Evidence-driven policy
In “Advancing Evidence-Based Policymaking to Solve Social Problems” (Issues, Fall 2013), Jeffrey B. Liebman has written an informative and thoughtful article on the potential contribution of empirical analysis… Read More

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