Science in the Gilded Age and the Birth of NAS Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/29-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:43:58 +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 Science in the Gilded Age and the Birth of NAS Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/29-2/ 32 32 Changing the Way We Account for College Credit https://issues.org/amy/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/amy/ For centuries, the United States has been the envy of the world in terms of its higher education system. But now we are largely coasting on a bygone reputation, obscuring the… Read More

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]]> Archives – Winter 2013 https://issues.org/archives-61/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/archives-61/ The NAS Building at Dusk

National Academy of Sciences Building, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. © 2012 Maxwell MacKenzie.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, non-profit society of distinguished… Read More

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]]> Moneyball https://issues.org/books/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/books/ The chorus of praise that has greeted Paula Stephan’s How Economics Shapes Science is well deserved. I am only echoing other reviewers by describing it as learned, insightful, eloquent, and timely. Stephan,… Read More

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]]> Not a Hundred Millionaires: The National Academy and the Expansion of Federal Science in the Gilded Age https://issues.org/daniel/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/daniel/ Shortly before the nation’s centennial, the physicist Joseph Henry, long admired abroad as well as at home, a onetime Princeton professor and the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for a quarter… Read More

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]]> Staying in School: A Proposal for Raising High-School Graduation Rates https://issues.org/derek-high-school-graduation-rates/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/derek/ High-school dropouts fare substantially worse than their peers on a wide variety of long-term outcomes. On average, a dropout earns less money, is more likely to be in jail, is less… Read More

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]]> Forum – Winter 2013 https://issues.org/forum-winter-2013/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/forum-67/ Energy basics
Bruce Everett (“Back to Basics on Energy Policy,” Issues, Fall 2012) reviews the history of government energy policy with discomforting accuracy. One can only hope that the article will… Read More

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]]> From the Hill – Winter 2013 https://issues.org/hill-63/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/hill-63/ House, Senate Committees investigate meningitis outbreak
After a meningitis outbreak this fall tied to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, House and Senate committees held hearings to investigate what happened, and members on both… Read More

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]]> Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities https://issues.org/isabel/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/isabel/ The United States defines itself as a nation where everyone has an opportunity to achieve a better life. Correspondingly, everyone should have the opportunity to succeed through talent, creativity, intelligence, and… Read More

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]]> History Lesson https://issues.org/journal/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/journal/ When you’re watching Steven Spielberg’s terrific new movie Lincoln, remember that this was the same Congress that passed the Morrill Act and created the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Although… Read More

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]]> The Hidden Risks of Energy Innovation https://issues.org/michael-2/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/michael-2/ Recent years have been disappointing for U.S. advocates of aggressive action on climate change. Efforts to pass comprehensive cap-and-trade legislation, which would have promoted the deployment of clean energy by making… Read More

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