Does Education Pay? Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/30-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:38:36 +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 Does Education Pay? Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/30-1/ 32 32 The Lessons of J. Robert Oppenheimer https://issues.org/br_tenner-5/ https://issues.org/br_tenner-5/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_tenner-6/ “Whatever the enemy may be planning, American science will be equal to the challenge.”
                                                              —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, June 29, 1943

A commonplace of national security debates is that science, supported by the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_tenner-5/feed/ 0 The Future of Meat https://issues.org/carolyn/ https://issues.org/carolyn/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/carolyn-2/ On August 5, 2013, the first hamburger grown from stem cells in a laboratory, and not in a cow, was served in London. This event was not merely a milestone in the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/carolyn/feed/ 0 From the Hill – Fall 2013 https://issues.org/hill-66/ https://issues.org/hill-66/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/hill-66/ Congressional budget gridlock
With the appropriations cycle stalled since July—and with little real hope of a completed appropriations cycle to begin with—Congress has now resumed the political gamesmanship around continuing resolutions and… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/hill-66/feed/ 0 Advancing Evidence-Based Policymaking to Solve Social Problems https://issues.org/jeffrey/ https://issues.org/jeffrey/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/jeffrey-2/  
Despite spending billions and billions of dollars each year, the United States is simply not making rapid enough progress in addressing a range of social problems. Many children are poorly prepared… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/jeffrey/feed/ 0 Rethinking “Science” Communication https://issues.org/prajwal/ https://issues.org/prajwal/#comments Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/prajwal-2/ Last year, 8,411 science and engineering journals published just over 1.1 million peer-reviewed articles. Another 190,000 papers were published in 3,016 social science journals. This works out to more than two peer-reviewed… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/prajwal/feed/ 1 Defining Energy Access for the World’s Poor https://issues.org/real/ https://issues.org/real/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/real-2/ The poorest three-quarters of the global population still use only about 10% of global energy—a clear indicator of deep and persistent global inequity. Modern energy supply is foundational for economic development, yet… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/real/feed/ 0 Trade Policy Is Science Policy https://issues.org/sebastian/ https://issues.org/sebastian/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/sebastian-2/ By the time this article goes to press, the United States and Europe will be preparing for their second round of negotiations on a comprehensive free trade agreement, scheduled to commence on… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/sebastian/feed/ 0 Forum – Fall 2013 https://issues.org/forum/ Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/?p=1291 Energy for global development
In “Making Energy Access Meaningful,” Morgan Bazilian and Roger Pielke Jr. (Issues, Summer 2013) raise important questions about what we mean by access to electricity. As they note,… Read More

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]]> A New Era https://issues.org/a-new-era/ Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/?p=1293 This edition of Issues in Science and Technology marks the beginning of a new era. Arizona State University is joining with the National Academies and the University of Texas at Dallas as… Read More

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]]> Does Education Pay? https://issues.org/does-education-pay/ Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/?p=1295 Higher education is one of the most important investments that people make. Whereas most academics emphasize the nonpecuniary benefits of higher education, most students making this investment are seeking higher wages and… Read More

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