The New Currency of Power | Winter 2025 https://issues.org/issue/41-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:29:14 +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 New Currency of Power | Winter 2025 https://issues.org/issue/41-2/ 32 32 When Nuance Is the Enemy https://issues.org/science-communication-crisis-review-nelson/ https://issues.org/science-communication-crisis-review-nelson/#respond Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44585 How can scientists communicate effectively during a crisis—a moment when attitudes toward science shift from lukewarm interest to a demand for immediate answers?

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]]> https://issues.org/science-communication-crisis-review-nelson/feed/ 0 Losing Government Innovators https://issues.org/government-innovators-scientist-bureaucrats-aviles-forum/ https://issues.org/government-innovators-scientist-bureaucrats-aviles-forum/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45349 An ideological current gained traction in the last quarter of the twentieth century in the United States, a growing claim that true innovation is a property of the private sector. Associated with… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/government-innovators-scientist-bureaucrats-aviles-forum/feed/ 0 Our Bases Are Precarious! https://issues.org/sea-level-history-hardenberg/ https://issues.org/sea-level-history-hardenberg/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44606 Sea level rise has become a standard indicator of how humans are transforming the planet. But our ideas about sea level, why we measure it, and how it varies have changed radically over the centuries.

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]]> https://issues.org/sea-level-history-hardenberg/feed/ 0 The Ants https://issues.org/ants-rohrer-poem/ https://issues.org/ants-rohrer-poem/#respond Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44611 Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

Nothing is more important to the antwhose exoskeleton has been breachedby mushroom spores that are nowcontrolling his nervous systemand compelling him to climb to a high leafonly to… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/ants-rohrer-poem/feed/ 0 The Importance of Infrastructure for Scalable Policy Solutions https://issues.org/infrastructure-scaling-up-ubaydli-list-forum/ https://issues.org/infrastructure-scaling-up-ubaydli-list-forum/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45243 In “Will It Scale?” (Issues, Fall 2024), Omar Al-Ubaydli and John A. List rightly underscore the complex nature of scaling successful programs. In light of this thoughtful work, I would… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/infrastructure-scaling-up-ubaydli-list-forum/feed/ 0 Foiling the Growing Threat of Fungal Pathogens https://issues.org/growing-threat-fungal-pathogens-desai-thompson/ https://issues.org/growing-threat-fungal-pathogens-desai-thompson/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44627 Climate change, changing migration patterns, and our agriculture system have created a perfect environment for fungal pathogens to thrive.

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]]> https://issues.org/growing-threat-fungal-pathogens-desai-thompson/feed/ 0 Attempting a Democratic Technology https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/ https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44588 John M. Logsdon reviews Amy Paige Kaminsky’s book about the development of and justification for NASA’s space shuttle program.

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]]> https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/feed/ 0 Remembering Lewis Thomas https://issues.org/remembering-lewis-thomas-fins-forum/ https://issues.org/remembering-lewis-thomas-fins-forum/#respond Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45195 “The Lives of Lewis Thomas” (Issues, Fall 2024), by Joseph J. Fins, stirred powerful memories. As an intern at Bellevue Hospital in New York City in 1971, I eagerly awaited The … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/remembering-lewis-thomas-fins-forum/feed/ 0 Nurturing Deeper Ways of Knowing in Science https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/ https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/#respond Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:53:47 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44599 Efforts to diversify representation in science and engineering require initiatives that increase diversity of thought as well.

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]]> https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/feed/ 0 Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West https://issues.org/out-of-site-hidden-west/ https://issues.org/out-of-site-hidden-west/#respond Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45281 Artists explore visual technologies to revise our understanding of remote Western lands that are both within and without modern society.

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