New Horizons for a Flat World Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/22-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:12:19 +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 New Horizons for a Flat World Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/22-2/ 32 32 Bad Fiction, Worse Science https://issues.org/br_miller/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_miller/ Michael Crichton has achieved celebrity status as a novelist, film director, and television producer/series creator. Trained as a doctor, Crichton never pursued a medical career but instead successfully combined his interest in… Read More

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]]> Scientizing politics https://issues.org/br_sarewitz/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_sarewitz/ The Republican War on Science offers a catalog of Republican-led confrontations with mainstream science, ranging from attacks on evolution and denial of climate change to the stacking of government advisory committees with… Read More

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]]> To Blog, or Not to Blog https://issues.org/editorsjournal-24/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/editorsjournal-24/ “I’M HOME FROM HAVING A COLONOSCOPY—everything went fine, but I think I’ll let the drugs leave my system for a while longer before doing any serious blogging.”
—Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds) 12/5/05, 11:19… Read More

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]]> Forum – Winter 2006 https://issues.org/forum-winter-2006/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/forum-39/ The university of the future
In “Envisioning a Transformed University” (Issues, Fall 2005), James J. Duderstadt, Wm. A. Wulf, and Robert Zemsky have once again rung a bell that… Read More

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]]> A Forgotten Model for Purposeful Science https://issues.org/green-2/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/green-2/ Toward the end of Richard Nixon’s first term as president, his Republican administration forced on a reluctant National Science Foundation (NSF) a major research program that looked like something out of a… Read More

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]]> From the Hill – Winter 2006 https://issues.org/hill-35/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/hill-35/ White House unveils pandemic flu plan
In a November 1 speech at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), President Bush proposed a multiyear plan to address the growing global threat of an… Read More

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]]> Collaborative Advantage https://issues.org/lynn/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/lynn/ Almost daily, news reports feature multinational companies—many based in the United States—that are establishing technology development facilities in China, India, and other emerging economies. General Electric, General Motors, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola—the… Read More

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]]> Yes, in My Backyard: Distributed Electric Power https://issues.org/munson-3/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/munson-3/ More than four generations of U.S. residents have come to accept the notion that electricity is best produced at large centralized power plants owned by monopolies. As a result, utilities continue to… Read More

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]]> The Kyoto Placebo https://issues.org/p_bell/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_bell/ Global warming is a stealth issue in U.S. foreign policy. Even as the effects of mounting carbon dioxide (CO2) begin to make themselves felt, and huge multinationals such as General Electric and… Read More

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]]> A Green Approach to Tax Reform https://issues.org/p_hanson/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_hanson/ The Bush administration has called for federal tax reform and appointed an advisory panel to develop recommendations. Because the administration has stipulated that any reform must be “revenue-neutral,” there will be a… Read More

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