June 3, 2014 The fatal flaw of the EPA and the decline of the honeybee Kyle Larkin Tess Doezema’s call to empower the EPA to ‘use a broader body of evidence than the strictly limited available evidence allowed under “sound science.”’ “Hey hey, ho ho, Monsanto has got to go!” A long line of protesters snaked… Read More »
June 2, 2014 Lessons from the ‘right to be forgotten’ Kyle Larkin Graduate student Jathan Sadowski interviews law professor on the “right to be forgotten.” There’s a truism among certain circles of analysts and commentators: Technologies usually outpace the laws meant to govern and regulate them. It’s often big news when legislation… Read More »
May 6, 2014 Makerspaces: What they are, and what they might mean for the university system Kyle Larkin by Aubrey Wigner, a graduate student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology The STGlobal Conference is an annual graduate student-led event for presenting in-process or recently completed research. During our panel titled, “Education and Technology” at… Read More »
May 1, 2014 Review of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age Kyle Larkin Jathan Sadowski PhD student in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes In her new book, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Astra Taylor provides a smart, critical look on how the rhetoric… Read More »
April 24, 2014 It’s the End of the World as We Prefer It, and I Feel … Stupid Kyle Larkin By Daniel Sarewitz My predictions for the next 20 years or so: Natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and typhoons, earthquakes, and droughts will afflict more people than ever, at greater costs than ever, in poor nations and rich alike.… Read More »
April 22, 2014 What’s Nanotechnology? Kyle Larkin Nanotechnology gurus Jameson Wetmore and Ira Bennett educate Geoff Notkin of The STEM Journals on some of the basics of Nanotechnology. What is the scale involved and why is there so much buzz about what huge improvements Nanotechnology might deliver?… Read More »
April 16, 2014 Fraud, Failure, and Frustration: This Is the Story of America’s First Energy Transition Kyle Larkin Americans have not always desired new sources of energy. Demand has needed to be created, and this has never been easy. by Christopher F. Jones, Assistant Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, ASU. George… Read More »
April 14, 2014 Flip the conference! Kyle Larkin Disclaimer: In this blog post, I not un-ironically level an academic critique of the way the academic conference has lost sight of its competitive advantage. Critics of the modern classroom like to offer a picture of two classrooms separated by… Read More »
April 8, 2014 New Climate Pragmatism Framework Prioritizes Energy Access as Driver of Innovation and Development Kyle Larkin Expanding access to reliable energy offers better route to address global challenges, climate and energy scholars say in new report. Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and… Read More »