Decision Making
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Pluto, David Bowie, and the Flu
August 28, 2009
The president's science advisers tackle swine flu's resurgence while Pluto’s defenders mourn its "demotion," and a researcher writes the perfect Bowie song.
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Designing Responsible Behavior
August 24, 2009
We visit the somewhat chaotic desk of an industrial designer who is leveraging the power of design to convince people to live greener lives.
decision making, design, innovation, social science, workbench
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Ants and Neurons
July 23, 2009
Insect colonies offer insight into the mysterious conversations of neurons, illuminating how billions of individual brain cells work in concert to make a single decision.
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The Coming Oil-Free Utopia
July 08, 2009
In $20 a Gallon, Christopher Steiner argues that rising oil prices will not unravel society, but rather change it for the better.
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Critical Mass
June 22, 2009
For particle physicists who study phase transitions, a traffic jam is simply a solid made up of idling cars.
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A Not-So-Silent Spring
June 11, 2009
The evidence is growing of long-term health problems related to spraying DDT in homes in the developing world.
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Week in Review: May 29
May 29, 2009
Stem cell guidelines from on high, geoengineering on the cheap, how genetic engineering could have created a new model organism, and the evolution of big brains.
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Recasting PCAST
May 27, 2009
With the historically debatable efficacy of science councils, will the White House’s new science-advisory super-team prove relevant?
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Is There a Better Word for Doom?
May 21, 2009
Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word.
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Don’t Mess With Textbooks
May 20, 2009
Science education faced setbacks at the Texas Board of Education hearings in March. An inside look at the politicians, teachers, and textbook publishers who are fighting back.
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How We Saved the Ozone Layer
April 22, 2009
Modeling climate in our past, present, and future worlds.
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Deciding How to Decide
March 18, 2009
Jonah Lehrer shines light on the black box of decision making, explains the problem with certainty, and discusses the challenges of eavesdropping on the brain.
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What Really Happened at Copenhagen?
March 13, 2009
It's problematic when largely unresolved debates among the world's climate change researchers get reduced to six key messages.
carbon, climate, consensus, decision making, energy, growth, politics
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Peer Pressure
March 13, 2009
James Wilsdon takes a close look at Britain's system for defining excellence at the country's top-performing universities.
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Thinking Meta
February 16, 2009
Good judgment is more than a matter of “gut feeling” — it’s the willingness to reflect on the decision-making process itself.
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Science Diplomacy for the 21st Century
February 03, 2009
On being a citizen of a world without borders or boundaries.
decision making, diplomacy, governance, leadership, policy, politics
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Safeguarding Biology
February 02, 2009
Can biotechnology safely reverse the course of our deteriorating biosphere?
biotechnology, cooperation, decision making, disease, research
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Science’s Rightful Place
January 30, 2009
The scientific community responds to Seed's Rightful Place initiative.
decision making, democracy, funding, governance, policy, politics
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The Holdren Factor
January 20, 2009
Barack Obama's science adviser plans to make science a factor in White House decisions.
climate, decision making, governance, leadership, policy, politics
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The Science Accomplishments of President George W. Bush
January 13, 2009
decision making, democracy, education, funding, governance, leadership, policy, politics, research
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
