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Understanding and Implemting Healthcare Reform
The United States Congress has passed a health reform bill that will reduce the number of uninsured people in our country. Now we need to improve both...
Can Technology Save Foreign Aid?
The notoriously inefficient development-assistance complex is under siege. Two trillion dollars have flowed from north to south in the last half...
Here be dragons: Governing a Technology Uncertain Future
Part 1 of 9 - 'The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology Today' featuring Dan Sarewitz, co-Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes;...
America's Children in Peril: Solving the Obesity and Mental Health Epidemics
"America's Children in Peril: Solving the obesity and mental health epidemics" was an expert forum hosted by Arizona State University at the National...
Eisenhower's Farewell Address at Fifty
President Eisenhower's address is mainly remembered for his warning of the perils of a "military-industrial complex." Less widely known, but no less...
Can Open Innovation Regain America's Competitive Edge?
The creation of new global industries, companies, organizations, and partnerships has long been dominated by American innovators. In today's...
Getting Back in the Race: Fixing America's Education
This is a pivotal moment to debate and refine innovative models for transforming our educational system in ways that markedly improve the quality of...
Warring Futures: How biotech and robotics are transforming today's military
New technologies are changing warfare as profoundly as did gunpowder. How are everything from flying robots as small as birds to "peak warrior...
Robots and Military Technology
George Poste gave the keynote address at a forum on military technology and robotics. Afterward, panelists talked about emerging technologies...
War Planning in 1861
Brooks Simpson talked about the effect of popular expectations on Union war planning in 1861. He showed slides during his presentation, after which he...
Can You Hear Me Now? Why Your Cell Phone is So Terrible
Few things in modern life irritate us as much as our cell phones. Calls drop, but contracts stick around forever. Monthly fees get ever higher, even...
Fossil Fuel Use and Alternative Energy
Panelists talked about ways to move away from dependence on fossil fuels to more energy-efficient sources such as wind and solar power.?They addressed...