Economics
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Illuminating Dark Economies
September 21, 2009
Measuring economic activity from outer space is a new frontier in the struggle to quantify humanity’s impact on the natural world.
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Economic Advice for the Planet
June 17, 2009
Protecting the environment, some say, is a drag on economic growth. Kristen Sheeran directs a new network of economists who aim to prove them wrong.
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Wooing Europe’s New Parliament
June 12, 2009
However little voters or the new MEPs care or know about science, the European Parliament controls billions in funding. The challenge for science is how to engage them.
economics, funding, governance, multilateralism, policy, politics
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The New Interface of Governance
June 02, 2009
If we can just tweak the way we make choices, we can make smarter ones. A look at Obama’s plans to put the science of human nature to work.
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The Green Collar Solution?
April 23, 2009
Will efforts to jumpstart the economy — even ostensibly green ones — collide with efforts to save the planet?
carbon, catalyst, climate, development, economics, policy, politics
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Why Environmentalism Needs High Finance
April 22, 2009
Conservationists may wish money were no object, but if nature is to survive, economic incentives and biological imperatives must align.
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Ecology of Finance
February 03, 2009
A growing cadre of biologists argues that ecosystem analysis of the world economy might stave off a repeat of 2008's financial catastrophe.
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Poor Decision Making
February 03, 2009
How behavioral economics can help change the fight against poverty.
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2009 Will Be a Year of Panic
January 29, 2009
From the fevered mind of Bruce Sterling and his alter-ego, Bruno Argento, a consideration of things ahead.
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The True 21st Century Begins
January 29, 2009
From the fevered mind of Bruce Sterling and his alter-ego, Bruno Argento, a consideration of things ahead.
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The New Federalism
January 19, 2006
Is the United States government unburdening itself of the big science issues and handing those responsibilities to individual states?
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Ig Nobel Pursuits
October 07, 2005
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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.
