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Category Archives: Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security
Developing nations should avoid ‘slow science’ – SciDev.Net
Developing nations should avoid ‘slow science’ – SciDev.Net. Worth reading, even if you disagree.
The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
CSID Director Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, Economics & STEM Research, Public Pedagogy, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged austerity, broader impacts, economics, education, future of the university, knowledge, peer assessment, science, science & ethics, Sequestration, society, technology
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The University Is in Real Trouble, Folks
This is news to no one who’s been paying attention, of course. But this morning I read two articles that highlight some of the difficulties universities are facing today. The first was from Al Jazeera, which seems to be on … Continue reading
Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
A very interesting piece written on preprints here: Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network. Preprints are essentially working papers that are ‘published’ in order to solicit feedback prior to … Continue reading
Physicist tipped for US energy post : Nature News & Comment
As the administration of US President Barack Obama prepares for a renewed push towards cleaner energy and reduced greenhouse-gas emissions, the White House appears to have chosen another physicist to head the effort. The leading candidate to replace departing energy … Continue reading
Times Higher Education – Slow ethics will tackle moral winter
Slow ethics provides for a more sustainable and tempered approach to professional ethics. It would go beyond simple monomaniacal explanations, quick fixes and single values and algorithms. It would involve learning from the past, appreciating complexity and taking time to … Continue reading
Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa? | Joanna Blythman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Now, this is something for us really to think about. Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa? | Joanna Blythman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. It’s silly to suggest that vegans are to blame, of course. It’s all … Continue reading
Denton Drilling: The End of Closed-Door Paternalism
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.” -Martin Luther … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Public Philosophizing, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security
Tagged Adam Briggle, City of Denton, communication, DAG, denton, exchange, fear, gas drilling ordinance, gas fracking, martin luther king, mlk, openness, paternalism, shale gas, Texas
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The End of the University as We Know It – Nathan Harden – The American Interest Magazine
In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. … Continue reading
Interdisciplines : CASE STUDY: INCREMENTAL UPGRADING OF ENKANINI – THE ISHACK INITIATIVE
If you click on one link today, I recommend this one: Interdisciplines : CASE STUDY: INCREMENTAL UPGRADING OF ENKANINI – THE ISHACK INITIATIVE. Dear Colleagues: INIT, the International Network of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity, is continuing to host a virtual … Continue reading
After Kyoto: Special Issue of NATURE
On 1 January 2013, the world can go back to emitting greenhouse gases with abandon. The pollution-reduction commitments that nations made as part of the Kyoto Protocol will expire, leaving the planet without any international climate regulation and uncertain prospects … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Degrowth Economics, Environmental policy, Globalization, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged carbon, climate, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas, Kyoto protocol
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Fracking Secrets by Thousands Keep U.S. Clueless on Wells – Bloomberg
“Texas state government has been a wholly owned subsidiary of national oil and gas interests for a century,” he says. “Do not look at it for guidance on anything related to protecting public health and safety.” Strong words — and … Continue reading
America’s secret fracking war – Salon.com
There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life. In the end, … Continue reading
Posted in Broader Impacts, Climate Change, Economics & STEM Research, Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Globalization, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged DAG, economics, economy, ecophilosophy, energy, environment, exploration, gas fracking, hydraulic fracking, hydraulic fracturing, jobs, war
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The politics of prudence; or, how I learned to stop worrying about climate change and love therapeutic nihilism
Frankenstorm Sandy, currently ravaging the northeastern US, is testament enough to the predictable unpredictability inherent in global warming. What I mean by “predictable unpredictability” is something like the following: though we cannot know exactly how individual weather systems in particular … Continue reading
The Religiosity of the Fracking Debate
CSID Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle publishes at Science Progress: The debate over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the shale gas revolution it has spawned has a religious aura to it. Both sides have an unshakeable conviction that fracking is either … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Globalization, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged argument, debate, exploration, fracking, hydrofracturing, polemic, religion
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Struggle for Water in Colorado With Rise in Fracking – NYTimes.com
Struggle for Water in Colorado With Rise in Fracking – NYTimes.com. An indication of our thirst for fossil fuels ….
The Veil of Ignorance: How Americans view wealth & inequality – BBC News
When you taste wine and you know the label and you know the price, you are going to be influenced by that. And when you are tasting wine in a blind way, now you don’t have anything to base it … Continue reading
Bernanke to Economists: More Philosophy, Please – Businessweek
Less economics and more philosophy… On Monday, Ben Bernanke wasn’t talking like a scientist. He was talking like a philosopher. “The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being,” he said. To a … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Basic News, Broader Impacts, Degrowth Economics, Economics & STEM Research, Occupy Wall Street, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security
Tagged Bernanke, economics, Federal Reserve, GDP, happiness, humanities, Philosophy, science, technoscientific economic progress, well-being
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“Fracked Ideologies” published at Science Progress
The use of high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas drilling has ignited a fiery political debate. Advocates tout natural gas as a clean-burning, cheap, and abundant fuel that can boost economic growth and energy security. Detractors question these benefits and … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Basic News, Broader Impacts, Degrowth Economics, Economics & STEM Research, Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged exploration, fracking, Fuller, hydraulic fracturing, innovation, Kurzweil, politics, politics of science, precautionary, proactionary, science policy, shale gas
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Squaring the genetically modified crop circle – opinion – 24 May 2012 – New Scientist
Matthew Nisbet has this right: If researchers want to make progress with genetically modified crops, they must join their opponents in examining regulation. Squaring the genetically modified crop circle – opinion – 24 May 2012 – New Scientist.
Philosophy Matters — Examining the Value of Knowledge | Office of Research and Economic Development
Bob and I discuss the value of philosophy. Philosophy Matters — Examining the Value of Knowledge | Office of Research and Economic Development.
New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years
“Simply put, [the rock layers] are not impermeable,” said the study’s author, Tom Myers, an independent hydrogeologist whose clients include the federal government and environmental groups. “The Marcellus shale is being fracked into a very high permeability,” he said. “Fluids could move … Continue reading
‘Huge’ Water Resource Discovered Under Africa – Cui Bono?
Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface. The team have produced … Continue reading
Arup | Designing the new normal
Our world is changing; it always has and it always will. Our greatest challenge is often not how to recognize change, but what to do about it. What responsibility does it place upon designers? I believe that a big part … Continue reading
More Americans Linking Global Warming to Extreme Weather
A poll due for release on Wednesday shows that a large majority of Americans believe that this year’s unusually warm winter, last year’s blistering summer and some other weather disasters were probably made worse by global warming. And by a 2-to-1 … Continue reading