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June 22, 2025

The Indirect Costs of Knowledge

Chanel Okosun

On November 14, 1955, the U.S. Secretary of the Army held a lunch meeting with Robert Cutler, President Eisenhower’s former National Security Advisor. While a Department of Defense official meeting with a former NSA would not ordinarily raise eyebrows, the…

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August 21, 2019

Books We’re Reading this Fall

Jason Lloyd

Summer reading is wonderful: the perfect time to find a comfy beach chair, sip a cold iced tea, and settle in with a well-plotted novel that makes the hours skip by in pleasurable escapism…. Who are we kidding? It’s impossible…

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June 8, 2017

Worried About Science Funding? Brush Up on Policy and Politics

Jason Lloyd

Scientists are often wary of engaging with the messy business of politics for a variety of reasons. But their understanding of and participation in the policy-making—and hence political—process is necessary if they wish to provide their important perspectives on some…

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March 8, 2016

Teaching Bioethics With Pool Noodles

Lori Hidinger

The School for the Future of Innovation in Society joined with ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination to host a “ScribbleBot” activity on the Night of the Open Door at ASU’s Tempe Campus, February 27, 2016. (Reposted with permission;…

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February 27, 2015

Disabled by Design

Lori Hidinger

How a lack of imagination in technology keeps the world inaccessible to huge numbers of people. This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. At noon on Wednesday, March 4,…

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June 17, 2014

Carbon controls and a solar surge: Are public attitudes changing the game?

Kyle Larkin

By Elisabeth Graffy, Professor of Practice, CSPO and Lightworks Debates about federal carbon control regulations and a solar-energy-induced “death spiral” for electric utilities have been heating up, but along separate tracks. Those two debates have now effectively collided. In retrospect,…

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June 11, 2014

Fixing the VA: It’s not that easy

Kyle Larkin

By Heather M. Ross, HSD student Proposals for new legislation to fix the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are flying in Congress. Unfortunately, each is problematically simple and pretends that the VA system represents an isolated case of inadequate healthcare…

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June 9, 2014

FDA’s recent IRB guidance more style than substance

Kyle Larkin

By Lee Seabrooke, HSD, PhD student The guidance provides useful operational issues to consider, such as the identification of “those studies for which IRB oversight is being transferred” and the establishment of “an effective date for transfer of oversight, including…

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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…

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