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A Robot Didn’t Write This: "Transformers," the summer blockbuster movie about war on Earth between two robot forces, foreshadows a world that may be closer to reality than you think. CSPO affiliate Lee Gutkind explores the infiltration of robots into our society in this op-ed for The Washington Post.
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The October Science Café: at the Arizona Science Center featured Jameson Wetmore, CSPO and SHESC, and Dean Deirdre Meldrum, Engineering, discussing “Less is More" Technology: Is Smaller and Cheaper Always Better?
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Research Value Mapping (RVM): RVM uses new methods to evaluate government-sponsored research programs, projects, and institutions.
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Political Effectiveness in Science and Technology: In this talk at the Workshop on Science and Social Values in Bielefeld, Germany, Dan Sarewitz explores the question of why humans make considerable gains in their efforts to solve some problems, whereas even persistent and significant effort on other problems yields little advance.
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Ways of Knowing
Novel Materials: A presentation by CSPO Director Dan Sarewitz to the
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution: Like it
or not, the unfolding of a new area of innovation commits us to
engage in a process of selecting which risks are acceptable and
which are not. This selection process involves decisions in the
midst of uncertainty, and trade-offs among incommensurable values
and objectives.
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Know-how is power:
The New York Times explores an ongoing CSPO project on effectiveness in human action.
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"Ecology
and Global Democracy"
CSPO's Clark Miller recently had a written piece on Ecology and
Global Democracy appear on the ESA's homepage.
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None Dare Call It Hubris: The Limits of Knowledge:
The central question that faces us as humans is whether
we will be able to position ourselves to choose wisely among alternative future
trajectories or will simply blunder onward. CSPO Founder and
Chair (and ASU President) Michael Crow presents his perspective in
the upcoming issue of Issues In Science and Technology.
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"A
Societal Outcomes Map for Health Research and Policy"
Michele Garfinkel,
Dan Sarewitz, and Alan Porter use “road-mapping” and technology
assessment to clarify relations between available perinatal health
options and improved health outcomes.
Written by Daniel Sarewitz in the March-April 2006 issue of
American Scientist.
For
copies of article reprints, please contact
michele.garfinkel@gmail.com
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"Liberating Science from Politics"
An essay written by Daniel
Sarewitz in the March-April 2006 issue of
American Scientist.
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Click here to see "Letters to the Editor" responding to the article.
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"Distributing Risks and Responsibilities: Flood Hazard
Mitigation in New Orleans"
An article submitted by Jameson Wetmore to
Social Studies of Science for its upcoming special issue: "Things
Fall Apart: Comments on Hurricane Katrina."
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The Woodrow Wilson Center Examines the Future of Technology
Assessment
A collection of three essays that are designed
to explore the issue of technology assessment from multiple
perspectives.
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"Scientizing Politics"
A review of
The Republican
War on Science by Daniel Sarewitz in Issues in Science and
Technology.
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Click here to
access the online journal
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"Building Amish Community with Technology:
Regulating Machines and Techniques to Forward Social
Goals"
An
article by Jameson Wetmore submitted to
IEEE Technology &
Society Magazine
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"Managing the Next Disaster"
An opinion piece by Daniel Sarewitz and Roger Pielke in the
September 23rd edition of the LA Times
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"Scientists' Participation in University
Research Centers: What are the Gender Differences?"
An article by Elizabeth Corley and Monica Gaughan in the Journal of
Technology Transfer
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