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Two years after the financial crisis, Wall Street has recovered, but has our economics fundamentally changed? We revisit a 2009 post-crisis interview with pioneering ecological economist Herman Daly who, through the lens of biophysics, urges us to think about economies that flourish — without growth.
Feature
In Defense of Difference
Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.
Global Reset
Starting Over
What are the most vital scientific lessons that need to be communicated today?
Ideas
The Art of Science Learning
It's time to re-imagine science learning. It's time for wood and clay, watercolor and chalk.
Departments
Ideas
Full Steam Ahead on CS-STEM
Globaloria students demonstrate how art and design and creative cognition can ignite all kinds of STEM learning.
Global Reset
On Discovering Life
The first truly alien life form may not come from a distant planet, but from a petri dish in a research lab.
Ideas
Buddhism and the Brain
Why do ancient Buddhist beliefs overlap so strongly with those of modern neuroscience?
Global Reset
On the Freedom of Knowledge
Can Europe's fragmented research efforts be unified by a single market for scientific knowledge?
Global Reset
On Biotechnology Without Borders
The power of modern biotechnology, if made openly available, could transform the developing world.
Global Reset
On Curing Everything
Kary Mullis offers a radical new way to treat antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases.
Innovation
Humans, Version 3.0
Where are humans going, as a species? Mark Changizi may have the answer.
Global Reset
On Adapting to Sandpiles
Joshua Cooper Ramo argues that in an era defined by instability, society must turn disruption into a force for good.
Global Reset
On Governing by Design
When used correctly, design can integrate innovation into people's everyday lives.
Global Reset
On Rethinking IP
Licensing patents for the developing world can help bring innovations to the people who need them most.
Global Reset
On Science Publishing
With print media lapsing into obsolescence, the internet is poised to transform science publishing and science itself.
Global Reset
On Science Transfer
Responding to current global challenges requires reforming the culture and practice of science.
Ideas
Wild Animal Sex
New research in birds, reptiles, and insects is redefining “normal” sexual behavior.
Global Reset
On Peace
History—and differing languages, cultures, and values—can make peace difficult to achieve. But science is a common ground.
Culture
If it’s Inspiring, Can it Be Wrong?
Is it wrong to rely on sex appeal to promote public understanding of science?
Slideshow
The Hidden World of Ants
Mark Moffett travels around the world taking stunning close-up photographs that capture the fascinating lives of ants.
Books
Books to Read Now
Edit Staff
June releases follow a wizard-bearded scientist on his quest to end aging; mine the essence of pleasure; and explore why being wrong is central to the human experience.
Interactive
Repository of the Cosmos
We visit Neil deGrasse Tyson to talk about his role as “servant to the public appetite of the universe” and all of the odd things that accumulate in his office.
ScienceBlogs.com
Selected Posts for October 17, 2011
- Lather Up for Global Handwashing Day
The Pump Handle
September 16, 2011
- How do we know how many galaxies are in the Universe?
Starts With a Bang!
October 13, 2011
- Impressionable youth and climate propaganda
Class: M
October 11, 2011
- See-Through Reactor Opens Window into Real-Time Chemistry
Brookhaven Bits and Bytes
October 11, 2011
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