The Need for Geoengineering Research Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/27-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:02:57 +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 The Need for Geoengineering Research Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/27-1/ 32 32 Strengthening Global Nuclear Governance https://issues.org/alger/ https://issues.org/alger/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/alger/ Motivated in large part by climate change and the need for carbon-free energy sources, governments and companies around the world are pushing to revive nuclear energy. Developed and developing countries alike have… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/alger/feed/ 0 Archives – Fall 2010 https://issues.org/archives-52/ https://issues.org/archives-52/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/archives-52/ CHERYL GOLDSLEGER, Perspective, Great Hall Constuction, National Academy of Sciences, Graphite on paper, 2009.
Perspective
Cheryl Goldsleger’s work stems from an interest in architectural space and what it reveals about how… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/archives-52/feed/ 0 Costly water https://issues.org/br_lewis-14/ https://issues.org/br_lewis-14/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_lewis-14/ Obsession may not be the best word to describe Americans’ attitude toward bottled water. Few people are preoccupied with the product; many purchase it without a second thought. But therein lies the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_lewis-14/feed/ 0 Drug Kingpin https://issues.org/br_miller-2/ https://issues.org/br_miller-2/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_miller-2/ Daniel Carpenter’s magnum opus about the origins, operations, and organizational nuances of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) represents in many respects superb historical scholarship. A former chief counsel for the regulatory… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_miller-2/feed/ 0 Technophilia’s Big Tent https://issues.org/br_tenner-2/ https://issues.org/br_tenner-2/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_tenner-2/ As the effects of climate change and other environmental stresses become more apparent, some technological prophets are alarmed, while others are more sanguine than ever. Jared Diamond has gone from Guns, Germs, … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_tenner-2/feed/ 1 The Need for Climate Engineering Research https://issues.org/caldeira/ https://issues.org/caldeira/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/caldeira/ Like it or not, a climate emergency is a possibility, and geoengineering could be the only affordable and fast-acting option to avoid a global catastrophe. Climate change triggered by the accumulation of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/caldeira/feed/ 0 Nuclear Waste Disposal: Showdown at Yucca Mountain https://issues.org/carter/ https://issues.org/carter/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/carter/ If the nation is to seriously confront a growing inventory of highly radioactive waste, a key step is to determine the merits of its geologic repository project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/carter/feed/ 0 Where Are the Health Care Entrepreneurs? https://issues.org/cutler/ https://issues.org/cutler/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/cutler/ Health care in the United States is notorious for market imperfections. Costs are higher and outcomes worse than almost all analyses of the industry suggest are reasonable. Indeed, few other industries perform… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/cutler/feed/ 0 Goddam Humans https://issues.org/editorsjournal-38/ https://issues.org/editorsjournal-38/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/editorsjournal-38/ The social sciences have long been considered the runt in the litter of the science family, if not the bastard child of wild conjecture with deluded mathematics. Broad-minded practitioners of the physical… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editorsjournal-38/feed/ 0 Forum – Fall 2010 https://issues.org/forum-fall-2010/ https://issues.org/forum-fall-2010/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/forum-58/ University futures
In “Science and the Entrepreneurial University” (Issues, Summer 2010), Richard C. Atkinson and Patricia A. Pelfrey remind us of the extent to which the U.S. economy is… Read More

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