Category: Magazine Articles

By Donald R. Prothero. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, August 1, 2013. Reviewed by A. David Wunsch   “Global warming is the…  Read More

By Gary T. Marx, University of Chicago Press, 2016. Reviewed by Donna L. Halper It goes without saying that we…  Read More

“One precious element in the Judeo-Christian tradition is respect for the human person. Each person is of infinite value in…  Read More

Figure 1. Popularity of the search terms (a) “Stereoscopy” and (b) “3D television” between January 2007 and October 2016, based on…  Read More

These remarks were delivered at the close of the 9th Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security (SINS16), Melbourne,…  Read More

Rapid advances in science and technology are opening doors for the fulfillment of human desires in ways that were not…  Read More

Heather M. Roff and Peter W. Singer [1] strikingly identify a problem for the next American president in the form…  Read More

What can parents do? Children need different rules at different ages of development. Here are some 3-6-9-12 Rules for the…  Read More

An Interview with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Born Timothy Ware in Bath, Somerset, England, Metropolitan Kallistos was educated at Westminster School…  Read More

I sat staring at the computer on February 6th, 2006, thinking about the press release I was about to send…  Read More

On December 3, 2016, the world celebrated the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the…  Read More

The United States military has a long tradition of driving technological innovation and the field of neurotechnology is no exception….  Read More

Dear Editor, After receiving my discharge from the United States Marine Corps, the most deplorable fight of my life/career started….  Read More

Nanotechnology in the Military The military sector has been investing in nanotechnology solutions since their inception. Internal assessment committees in…  Read More

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine contributor Alexander Hayes interviewed Glass Explorer Cecilia Abadie on January 21, 2013. The complete Google…  Read More

The Greely Expedition of 1881 is a harrowing tale of starvation and the death of all but six of the…  Read More

Wiener was far ahead of his time in recognizing that our habits of technology-fueled consumption pose significant threats to health and the environment. He predicted that within the foreseeable future we would be facing growing coal and gas shortages, growing scarcity of water with which to supply our cities, growing rates of infection due to increased air travel and antibiotic resistance, growing problems related to processed and synthetic foods, growing risks of nuclear power accidents, and growing risks of nuclear war.

The arc of Norbert Wiener’s fascinating life became clear to us one day in the M.I.T. Institute Archives. In one…  Read More

Governments and corporations gather, store, and analyze the tremendous amount of data we chuff out as we move through our…  Read More

The postwar period was one of intense interdisciplinary ferment, nowhere more so than at the famous Macy conferences on circular…  Read More