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• Select Astonishingly Hyperconnected: Climate change and biodiversity loss are inextricably linked problems that cannot be solved without science and policy that acknowledges this integration.

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  Astonishingly Hyperconnected: Climate change and biodiversity loss are inextricably linked problems that cannot be solved without science and policy that acknowledges this integration.

  Author:Maureen KearneyFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,600 words Article 1540LThe dual problems of climate change and biodiversity loss are interconnected, and are among the most urgent scientific and social issues of our time. Yet until recently they have largely been treated separately, as...
• Select Bringing Open Source to the Global Lab Bench.

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  Bringing Open Source to the Global Lab Bench.

  Authors:Julieta Arancio and Shannon DosemagenFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,839 words Article 1500LIn 2015, Richard Bowman, an optics scientist, began experimenting with 3D printing a microscope as a single piece in order to reduce the time and effort of reproducing the design. Soon after, he started the OpenFlexure...
• Select Complexity and Visual Systems.

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  Complexity and Visual Systems.

  From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2022288 words Brief article 1360LArt, in both creation and experience, is one of the most complex of human endeavors. Artist Ellen K. Levy engages the mental loop of seeing, connecting, and processing by juxtaposing imagery that creates meaning from...
• Select Behind the Bougainvillea Curtain: Wildfires and Inequality: More equitable approaches to disaster relief efforts must include undocumented Latino and Indigenous migrants.

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  Behind the Bougainvillea Curtain: Wildfires and Inequality: More equitable approaches to disaster relief efforts must include undocumented Latino and Indigenous migrants.

  Author:Michael MendezFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,010 words Article 1420LWhenever disasters such as wildfires, heatwaves, and droughts strike, observers often assert that these crises do not discriminate on the basis of the race or social class of their victims. Nonetheless, their...
• Select New Ways to Get to High Ground: Benefit-cost analysis for sustainability and resilience planning needs new tools to proactively meet community needs and ensure that projects are successful.

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  New Ways to Get to High Ground: Benefit-cost analysis for sustainability and resilience planning needs new tools to proactively meet community needs and ensure that projects are successful.

  Authors:Jennifer Helgeson and Jia LiFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,500 words Article 1580LWhen local officials in Port Orford, Oregon, a small coastal town 60 miles north of California, were planning how to address the threat posed by tsunamis, they were surprised to learn that creating new evacuation routes...
• Select Deus ex Technologica.

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  Deus ex Technologica.

  Author:Lisa MargonelliFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,529 words Article 1580LA year ago, COVID-19 seemed like a global crisis with a technological solution. Effective vaccines were being rolled out, which, combined with monoclonal antibodies and other treatments, reduced transmission, symptomatic...
• Select Reconceptualizing the Public Research University.

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  Reconceptualizing the Public Research University.

  Author:William DabarsFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,754 words Article 1480LEngineering education in the United States is "stuck in 1955," according to a recent assessment by Sheryl Sorby, Norman L. Fortenberry, and Gary Bertoline of the American Society for Engineering Education. But apart from...
• Select Encompassing the Innovation Panoply: As US science policy shifts toward a new model intended to stimulate economic growth, the country must create an institutional infrastructure for federal industrial policy.

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  Encompassing the Innovation Panoply: As US science policy shifts toward a new model intended to stimulate economic growth, the country must create an institutional infrastructure for federal industrial policy.

  Author:William B. BonvillianFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20224,685 words Article 1420LUS policymakers from both parties have long avoided "industrial policy," but a new set of drivers--competition with China, confronting climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic--is forcing a shift in attitudes. These...
• Select Power's Real Challenges.

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  Power's Real Challenges.

  Author:Kai N. LeeFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,599 words Article 1380LElectricity is a quicksilver element of everyday life. Although essential for many day-to-day activities, power generation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions; at the same time, electricity is at the center of...
• Select Redefining Security: The recent National Intelligence Estimate on climate change illustrates how traditional national security approaches must be expanded to contend with global environmental change.

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  Redefining Security: The recent National Intelligence Estimate on climate change illustrates how traditional national security approaches must be expanded to contend with global environmental change.

  Author:Carol DumaineFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,978 words Article 1480LOn January 27, 2021, in one of its first executive orders, the Biden administration asked the intelligence community to produce a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the "national and economic security impacts of...
• Select Faith & Science.

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  Faith & Science.

  Author:Vannevar BushFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20221,089 words Reprint 1480LA half-century since his death, Vannevar Bush is best known for his formative role in the rise of computing and for conceiving of and helping birth, the National Science Foundation, the leading supporter in the United...
• Select Inhabited Landscapes 8.

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  Inhabited Landscapes 8.

  From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 202275 words Brief article 1120LArtist Joe Feddersen is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. In his 40-year artistic career, he has worked in painting, basketry, glass sculpture, photography and computer-generated imagery....
• Select How Do We Price an Unknowable Risk? Devised by economists and set by bureaucrats, the social cost of carbon has a powerful moral implication: the sacrifice society is willing to make for posterity.

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  How Do We Price an Unknowable Risk? Devised by economists and set by bureaucrats, the social cost of carbon has a powerful moral implication: the sacrifice society is willing to make for posterity.

  Author:David SimpsonFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20223,205 words Article 1330LThe social cost of carbon (SCC) has been described as the most important number most people have never heard of. The greenhouse gases emitted by human activity may remain in the atmosphere for decades or centuries,...
• Select Invisible Fish.

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  Invisible Fish.

  Author:Joy HarjoFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 202257 words Brief article 990LInvisible fish swim this ghost ocean now described by waves of sand, by water-worn rock. Soon the fish will learn to walk. Then humans will come ashore and paint dreams on the dying stone. Then later, much later, the...
• Select PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY SCIENTISTS.

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  PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY SCIENTISTS.

  From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2022388 words Brief article 1340LIn "A Climate Equity Agenda Informed by Community Brilliance" (Issues, Fall 2021), Jalonne L. White-Newsom discusses the predictability of climate change-related health challenges in communities whose primary residents...
• Select Fixing the Disconnect Around Energy Access: The divergent fates of two community mini-grids in Nigeria illustrate why energy systems should be built to enable economic transformation.

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  Fixing the Disconnect Around Energy Access: The divergent fates of two community mini-grids in Nigeria illustrate why energy systems should be built to enable economic transformation.

  Authors:Michael O. Dioha, Norbert Edomah, and Ken CaldeiraFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,506 words Article 1440LOver the past two decades, the United Nations, the World Bank, regional development banks, and national governments have led efforts to give more people access to electricity. The movement has made significant gains: in...
• Select A NEW COMPACT FOR S&T POLICY.

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  A NEW COMPACT FOR S&T POLICY.

  From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2022562 words Article 1390LSince I came to Congress in 1993, increasing diversity in science and technology has been a driving focus of mine. I know from experience that talent is everywhere and that far too often students from underserved...
• Select Innovation a Force for Equity: Today's health innovation system doesn't benefit everyone equally. To change it we need to think differently about expertise, innovation, and systems for ensuring access to crucial technologies.

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  Innovation a Force for Equity: Today's health innovation system doesn't benefit everyone equally. To change it we need to think differently about expertise, innovation, and systems for ensuring access to crucial technologies.

  Author:Shobita ParthasarathyFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20224,769 words Article 1400LAs we plan our science and innovation policy strategy for the next 75 years, we must work to center equity as a public value. Today, the United States is profoundly unequal, with 10% of households holding 76% of the...
• Select ANNUAL STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP.

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  ANNUAL STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP.

  Author:Lisa MargonelliFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 2022463 words Article 1110LUSPS Statement of ownership, management, and circulation of ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, publication number 727770, annual subscription price $48, published four times a year at PO Box 877705 Tempe, AZ 85287 for...
• Select Where Conversations Happen and Values Emerge: What spurs religious action on climate change? The answer lies more in dialogue than in doctrine.

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  Where Conversations Happen and Values Emerge: What spurs religious action on climate change? The answer lies more in dialogue than in doctrine.

  Authors:Forrest Clingerman and Robin Globus VeldmanFrom:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Wntr 20222,316 words Article 1490LIn the weeks before the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, religious leaders including Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby issued a statement arguing...