Making Sense of the Adolescent Brain Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/28-3/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:11:56 +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 Making Sense of the Adolescent Brain Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/28-3/ 32 32 Learning from Fukushima https://issues.org/pfotenhauer/ https://issues.org/pfotenhauer/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/pfotenhauer/ Disasters prompt us to seek lessons. After the tragic trifecta of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear failure at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors in March 2011, many people have turned to Japan to understand… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/pfotenhauer/feed/ 2 Time for Another Giant Leap For Mankind https://issues.org/realnumbers-30/ https://issues.org/realnumbers-30/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/realnumbers-30/ In May of 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced a bold priority for the United States. He memorably urged the nation to send a man to the Moon by 1970:
“No single… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/realnumbers-30/feed/ 0 Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy? https://issues.org/steinberg-science-adolescent-teenage-brain-policy/ https://issues.org/steinberg-science-adolescent-teenage-brain-policy/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/steinberg/ The science of adolescent brain development is making its way into the national conversation. As an early researcher in the field, I regularly receive calls from journalists asking how the science of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/steinberg-science-adolescent-teenage-brain-policy/feed/ 1 The Tunnel at the End of the Light: The Future of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry https://issues.org/van_atta/ https://issues.org/van_atta/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/van_atta/ Today, as it was 25 years ago, U.S. leadership in the semiconductor industry appears to be in peril, with increasingly robust competition from companies in Europe and Asia that are often subsidized… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/van_atta/feed/ 0 Global Lessons for Improving U.S. Education https://issues.org/west/ https://issues.org/west/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/west/ The middling performance of U.S. students on international achievement tests is by now familiar, so the overall results of the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, released in late 2010,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/west/feed/ 1 Archives – Spring 2012 https://issues.org/archives-58/ https://issues.org/archives-58/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/archives-58/ JAMES PROSEK, Porgy, Watercolor and gouache on tea-stained paper, 18.75 x 22 inches, 2011.
Porgy
James Prosek is a contemporary artist whose work originates in the style of early naturalists such… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/archives-58/feed/ 0 Why the Current Education Reform Strategy Won’t Work https://issues.org/atkinson-7/ https://issues.org/atkinson-7/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/atkinson-7/ For over half a century, innovations based on science and engineering have powered the U.S. economy, creating good jobs, a high standard of living, and international economic leadership. Yet, as the National… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/atkinson-7/feed/ 1 Who should govern the Internet? https://issues.org/br_blumenthal-4/ https://issues.org/br_blumenthal-4/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_blumenthal-4/ The phrase “Internet governance” stimulates a range of responses, from fear on the part of infotech pioneers to hope in the hearts of many government leaders in emerging economies. A global “network… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_blumenthal-4/feed/ 0 Is Open-Source Software the Answer? https://issues.org/br_samuelson/ https://issues.org/br_samuelson/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_samuelson/ Open-source software has been an enigma to many commentators. Economists, for example, have pondered why any rational person would invest time and energy developing computer programs in order to make them freely… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_samuelson/feed/ 1 Internet Freedom and Human Rights https://issues.org/clinton/ https://issues.org/clinton/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/clinton/ In the 63 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world has been implementing a global commitment around the rights and freedoms of people everywhere, no matter… Read More

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