By Jamey Wetmore, We’re becoming a bit more Amish I know. You own a slim titanium ultrabook computer, an eye popping LCD 3D HD television, an iPhone with a custom designed carbon fibre cover, and a sports car with 360…

By David Guston and Ed Finn, This article also appears as part of Slate.com’s Future Tense series. ASU is a partner in Future Tense with Slate and the New America Foundation. Bond is back. But you can forget about stale…

By Jathan Sadowski Innovation is something everybody calls for: almost every company wants to be known for it, and we praise people for becoming innovators at a young age. But is all innovation a good thing? Not necessarily. Implicit in…

Designing and launching a spacecraft the outer reaches of our solar system requires technological prowess, innovative problem solving, and – in the case of NASA’s New Horizons unmanned probe in June 2012 – bake sales and car washes. Behind these…

By Clark Miller As I write, Nate Silver has updated his 538 model to show a 92.2% probability that Obama wins easily. The reason? His model calculation concludes that Obama will win Ohio with a 3.8% margin, Nevada by 4.7%,…

By Clark A. Miller This article also appears on Slate.  Arizona State University is a partner in Future Tense with Slate and the New America Foundation. All storms tell stories. Some are inevitably about destruction. Others are about heroism and…

By Jameson M. Wetmore, In the spring of 2011, the Emirate of Dubai appeared in headlines as the site of a series of protests. These protests, however, were largely not aimed at the Emirati government. Dubai has become a place…

By Daniel Sarewitz, On October 22, six scientists and a public safety official were convicted of manslaughter in an Italian court for their actions prior to the 2009 l’Aquila earthquake, which killed 309 people mostly due to collapse of ancient…

By G. Pascal Zachary This is the story of the plight of chimpanzees in west Africa – not the only story by any means, but the only one I know first hand — about an orphaned chimpanzee, once cared for…