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• Fall 2017

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  Rachel Wilkinson

  Some people go running or meditate; they recite mantras or affirmations, carry pictures of the saints. My brother used to keep one of those mini Zen rock gardens in his room as… Read More

• January 10, 2023

  Episode 24: Collaborations on Ice

  Cy Keener, Ignatius Rigor, JD Talasek

  How can scientific data be made more tangible, visceral, and experiential? Collaboration! Over the course of a four-year project, Arctic Ice: A Visual Archive, artist Cy Keener, landscape researcher Justine … Read More

• Fall 2025

  Beauty in Every Body

  Theodore C. Smith

  Anatomy has long been recognized as a field at the crossroads of politics, medicine, crime, taboo, professionalism, modesty, racism, sexism, and much else. A new book goes beyond these issues in exploring anatomy’s past, asking if early anatomical illustration could have been a space for the exploration of homoerotic desire, hidden in plain sight. 

• Spring 2026

  Constructing a New Knowledge Infrastructure

  Shannon Dosemagen, Gwen Ottinger

  An environmental knowledge commons could support evidence-based policymaking, but it will require long-term coordination across the many communities monitoring pollution and local conditions.

• January 17, 2022

  Episode 6: The Marvelous and the Mundane

  The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to reveal secrets of every phase of cosmic history, going all the way back to the Big Bang. In this episode we talk with Washington,… Read More

• April 30, 2025

  K–12 Education in the Age of AI

  Shuchi Grover

  As powerful AI tools begin to affect our lives, what should learners and teachers understand in order to use them in ways that are empowering and equitable?

• May 21, 2024

  Novel Technologies and the Choices We Make: Historical Precedents for Managing Artificial Intelligence

  Marc Aidinoff, David Kaiser

  Scientific and technological innovations are made by people, and so they can be governed by people. Notwithstanding breathless popular descriptions of disempowered citizens cowed by technical complexity or bowing to the inevitable… Read More

• Winter 2025

  How Some Universities Translate Inclusive Innovation Into Regional Growth

  Mercedes Delgado, Fiona Murray

  Positioning universities as hubs of inclusive innovation, particularly in less inventive places, can shift local workforce demographics and accelerate growth.

• Summer 2025

  Building Decision Points Into Research’s Slipperiest Slopes

  John H. Evans, Craig Callender, Neal K. Devaraj, Farren J. Isaacs, Gregory E. Kaebnick

  The controversy around a ban on “mirror life” should lead to a more nuanced public conversation about how to manage the benefits and risks of precursor biotechnologies.

• October 28, 2025

  Not Now, But Soon: Losing Your Country

  Nasir Andisha, Malka Older

  Nasir Andisha, ambassador and permanent representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, shares the story of what it’s like to lose his nation, but continue to advocate for its people. 

• Winter 2026

  Why the Cloud Needs Competition

  Asad Ramzanali

  To ensure the nation’s leadership in artificial intelligence, cloud computing infrastructure must be regulated to encourage competition and enable innovation, building on lessons from other sectors.

• September 16, 2025

  Not Now, But Soon: A Hurricane of Data

  Steven Gonzalez, Malka Older

  Steven Gonzalez compares the dramatic and immediate impacts of Hurricane Maria to the slower, overlooked disasters of environmental destruction and exploitation of human labor that support our data infrastructure.

• Spring 2025

  Who Owns Science?

  Lisa Margonelli

  Why has the public not shown much outrage at—or even interest in—the dismantling of the national research project that they’ve been bankrolling for the past 75 years?

• Spring 2026

  We Created a Survey to Measure Community Well-Being and Activated a “Messy Middle”

  Natalie Bomstad

  How a Wisconsin county realized that systems change requires shared sensemaking as much as innovative metrics.

• Spring 2026

  Roving the Prairies

  Charles N. Herrick

  Charles N. Herrick navigates the science and art of American grassland restoration in his review of George Frazier’s recent book on grassland rivers.

• Winter 2025

  Our Bases Are Precarious!

  Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

  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.

• Spring 2026

  Spam Policy and the Myth of the Ungovernable Internet

  Rebecca Coyne

  The story of feckless efforts to address spam in the early 2000s offers a cautionary tale for attempts to regulate artificial intelligence today.

• Summer 2025

  Chakaia Booker: Treading New Ground

  

  Through cutting, coiling, and contorting tires, Chakaia Booker transforms industrial waste into remarkably graceful sculptures that defy their origins.

• May 5, 2026

  Kumar Garg Funds Ideas That Are “Big, if True”

  Kumar Garg, Monya Baker

  Kumar Garg, president of Renaissance Philanthropy, shares how he has spent his career finding, funding, and implementing ideas both within the government and outside it via philanthropy, which is uniquely positioned to pilot “big, if true” ideas.

• Winter 2020

  License and Registration, Please

  Stephanie Wykstra

  In 2015, Texas state trooper Brian Encinia ordered 28-year-old Sandra Bland out of her vehicle after pulling her over for failure to signal a lane change. He then forcefully restrained her and… Read More

• Spring 2026

  A Science Funding System Beyond the Linear Model

  Heather Douglas

  To improve the relationship between science and the public, funders should embrace a new ontology of scientific work that aligns incentives with society’s goals.

• Fall 2025

  Don’t Forget the Farmers

  Will farmers see a benefit from modernized soil tests that provide more accurate assessments of soil quality—and therefore land value?

• Spring 2026

  How the American Research University Survives

  Robert A. Brown, Bruce R. Guile

  University leadership needs to shift attention from chasing prestige to crafting strategies for long-term success.

• Fall 2025

  How “Archive” Became a Verb

  Amelia Acker

  Debates over a proposed national data center in the 1960s reveal how anxieties around privacy and digitization led to the shift toward corporate control of personal data.

• Winter 2026

  Repurposing Grand Challenges in Tumultuous Times

  Martin Ho, Pramod P. Khargonekar, Eoin O’Sullivan

  As research budgets tighten, priorities evolve, and new funding models emerge, the grand challenge framework can restore coherence, direction, and shared purpose across the scientific enterprise.

• February 27, 2026

  What Would Akanda Do?

  An Indian actor in a future Mumbai has authorized politicians, entertainers, and businesses to use his likeness. When he discovers his image is being used as a tool for repression—and when two kids he’s close to disappear—the actor is forced to confront what he really gave away.

• Spring 2025

  When That Chickadee Is No Longer “A Machine With Feathers”

  Brandon Keim

  New research on animal intelligence is leading to a clash of worldviews that has implications for policy.

• Winter 2026

  How I Learned to Conduct Research That Makes a Difference in the Lives of Arizona’s Kids

  Gabriel Q. Shaibi

  Gabriel Shaibi was trained to gather evidence about diabetes prevention. To have an impact, he learned to gather partners.

• Winter 2026

  Butter Cows and Seed Art and Participatory Spectacles 

  Colleen Sheehy

  

  State fairs create an intersection for rural and urban life, connecting fairgoers with agrarian knowledge and heritage, even though fewer than 2% of Americans are farmers today.

• January 16, 2024

  Generative AI Is a Crisis for Copyright Law

  Kate Crawford, Jason Schultz

  Generative artificial intelligence is driving copyright into a crisis. More than a dozen copyright cases about AI were filed in the United States last year, up severalfold from all filings from 2020… Read More