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Rusty Roy

Daniel Sarewitz

August 30, 2010

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I think it was in the spring of 1988 that I visited Washington, D.C., to explore the potential for moving from academic science into public policy. I had set up an informational interview at AAAS and was sitting in their library waiting for my meeting to begin. After browsing the shelves for a few seconds, and guided only by karmic randomness, I pulled down a book called Lost at the Frontier, by Deborah Shapley and Rustum Roy.

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Farmers and Climate Change: The relative speed and efficiency with which farmers are able to change technologies and management practices in response to climate change will be an important determinant of adaptive success. CSPO’s Netra Chhetri and his co-authors have examined this issue in their paper, “Modeling Path Dependence in Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change,” published by Annals of the Association of American Geographers and available online. Read More
Blogging from France: Jamey Wetmore and Mark Brown are blogging on Soapbox each day through Aug. 29 regarding their reactions and experiences at the IHEST European Summer School "Which place for science in the public debate?" this week in France. They invite your comments. For more about the summer school, read the ASU News story.
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College research is key to U.S. future: “Clearly, the sheer level of energy devoted to the process of scientific discovery and technology development has given the United States a competitive edge,” says ASU president Michael Crow in an op-ed in the Arizona Republic. “Without continuing to invest in this fundamental piece of economic development, our options will be reduced and our preeminence lost. “ Read More
How to get to a zero-carbon economy: “Getting to a zero-carbon economic system by 2050 will be a much heavier lift than previously thought,” said CSPO co-director Dan Sarewitz and CATF executive director Armond Cohen in their July 24, 2010 Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post. They say it is “wrong to suggest that merely pricing carbon will produce the low-carbon technologies we need.” Read More

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Sci-Fi Inspires Engineers To Build Our Future: Search engines, virtual worlds, the Internet — ever get the feeling you're living in a science fiction fantasy? Well indeed you are. For more than a century, inventors have been driven to create what sci-fi writers have boldly imagined before. But talk to most science fiction authors, and they will tell you that their work is usually cautionary. Read More
August 21, 2010
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet: Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Read More
August 17, 2010
Wheres the Future? Will Ferrells Tour of Tech That Never Took: From clean coal to designer babies: Why the marvels we were promised haven’t materialized. Read More
August 3, 2010
In a First, Full-Sized Robo-Copter Flies With No Human Help: In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, AZ, avoided obstacles during flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely. It’s the kind of flight choppers have made tens of thousands of times before. Except this time, the helicopter did it entirely on its own — with no humans involved. It was the first fully autonomous flight of a full-sized chopper, ever. Read More
July 14, 2010

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