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Recent Science & Policy News Archive

 

Will the Next Ice Age Be a Very Long One: A new analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a quasi-permanent colder state — with expanded ice sheets at both poles.
November 13th, 2008

 

U.N. Reports Pollution Threat in Asia: A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out the sun, fouling the lungs of millions of people and altering weather patterns in large parts of Asia, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations.
November 13th, 2008

 

Water Laws May Be Used to Fight Warming: Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.
November 12th, 2008

 

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Innovation policy: not just a jumbo shrimp: Policies that predict and direct innovative research might seem to be a practical impossibility, says CSPO Co-Director David H. Guston in this Nature Commentary, but social sciences point to a solution.

 

Can Technology Make you Better: As the future unfolds, the idea of mankind designed its own evolution through a mix of evolutionized technology is becoming a reality. In this exciting speech, CSPO's Daniel Sarewitz discusses the implications and the future of what is known as transhumanism.

 

ASU Asks for Science Funds: ASU representatives went to Washington, D.C., last week to urge congressional leaders to boost what they say is insufficient federal science funding. The supplemental package is necessary now because of weaker grants in coming years for ASU and other universities. Daniel Sarewitz, director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at ASU, disuccsses how progressive ASU projects are attracting more funding than ever before.

 

 

 

CSPO Ideas Archive

 

What Pollsters Can Learn From Climate Modelers: CSPO's Clark Miller discusses in this guest column, how election pollers could benefit from employing the same successful principles that climate modelers have been using.

 

Characterizing the Public Value of Interagency Climate Science: Presented at the Copenhagen International Public Value Workshop by CSPO's own Ryan Meyer.
  » Additional papers from conference can be found here.

 

Technology in the Culture of Progress: Could there be any better mirror into a person’s soul than their views on progress? CSPO's Daniel Sarewitz explores the relation between progress and technology.

 

 

 

Water-Repelling Metals: Researchers at GE have come up with a way to treat metals so that they repel water. The water-repelling property, called superhydrophobicity, means that water forms drops on the surface instead of spreading and sticking to it.

 

Carbon-Capturing Rock: Chemical reactions that pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the form of solid rock inside geological formations could offset billions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions each year.

 

Google Says: Don't Drink and Email: A Google engineer has developed a way to avoid random emailing late at night when you're most likely to be drunk.

 

 

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