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Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on scientific research? Research studies investigating other research studies – yes, it’s very meta – have diagnosed a “reproducibility” crisis in biomedicine. Simply put, it’s shockingly difficult to reproduce the results of many laboratory research studies relied upon as authoritative and definitive.
Wednesday April 20, 2016
03:00 PM – 04:30 PM
[u'New America', u'740 15th St NW', u'Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']
Join New America guests Raji Sourani and Shawan Jabarin and moderator Zaha Hassan for a conversation about what possibilities exist and what challenges Palestinians may face in international fora. Sourani and Jabarin will also discuss the current wave of violence in the region that began late September 2015 and what this may mean for the future of Israel/Palestine peace.
More about the eventThursday April 21, 2016
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
[u'New America', u'740 15th Street NW', u'Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on scientific research? Research studies investigating other research studies – yes, it’s very meta – have diagnosed a “reproducibility” crisis in biomedicine. Simply put, it’s shockingly difficult to reproduce the results of many laboratory research studies relied upon as authoritative and definitive.
More about the eventTuesday April 26, 2016
06:30 PM – 08:30 PM
[u"Landmark's E Street Cinema", u'555 11th Street NW', u'Washington, DC 20004']
Join Future Tense from 6:30 till 8:30 pm on Tuesday, April 26, at Landmark’s E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C., to watch The Terminator with our experts Kevin Bankston, director of the Open Technology Institute at New America, and Sean Luke, director or the Autonomous Robotics Laboratory at George Mason University.
More about the eventThursday April 28, 2016
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
[u'New America', u'740 15th Street NW', u'Suite 900', u'Washington DC 20005']
Join the Political Reform program and Better Life Lab for a no-holds-barred conversation about what today’s definitions of masculinity mean for the present and future of American politics. Will the combination of backlash against misogynist rhetoric and the first viable female contender for the presidency change the game?
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Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists
How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers
Meeting people where they are
Women, Men, Work, Family
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT:A PRIMER
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT:A PRIMER
A Novel of the Next World War
How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became Corporate
Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be
The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Voices from the Internet Underground
The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
What Everyone Needs to Know
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
And How They Got That Way
Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
America After Meritocracy
ExxonMobil and American Power
An Economic History of the United States
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Why Global Development Is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
A History of American Hubris
How a Networked Progressive media Can Reshape American Politics
The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity
Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
A Biography by Liza Mundy
How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
HOW THE SCIENCE OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IS CHANGING OUR WORLD
An Arabian Family In the American Century
Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours
Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
A Vision for America’s Role in the World
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power
If you are like most Americans, you cringe at the thought of tax season. You get nervous about doing your taxes, a process that you don’t entirely understand. However, the truth is that you most likely have good reason to look forward to this time of year: very few ...
“Is Stitching the State Data Systems the Solution to the College Blackout?” explores the idea of “stitching together” a state-based federal data systems to reveal national college outcomes.
As I’ve recently written, most of the hottest K–12 topics are already settled for the 2016 election cycle. But that doesn’t mean that education is going to be entirely relegated to the sidelines. Keep an eye on early education policy, where various candidates have strong interest in and credentials for making their mark with new, interesting (or, erm, “interesting”) proposals. If you’ve been a combatant in — or just an observer of — the last decade of K–12 battles, it’s time to get ready for a crash course in a whole new realm of edu-politics. So: here’s a guide to sorting serious early education programs (especially pre-K) from the campaign trail posturing.+The usual case for early education is already well established in American public discourse. Research shows that low-income children fall behind their wealthier peers’ language development almost from birth. By age three, the children from the poorest American families have heard an average of 30 million fewer words than children from the wealthiest families. These gaps only grow in the years before elementary school.
This morning, the House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 2666) that would make it practically impossible for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enforce the 2015 Open Internet Order. Earlier this week, OTI joined 49 other organizations urging Congress to reject the bill, which the White House has threatened to veto.
Today, President Obama announced his support for the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) effort to promote competition in the market for set-top navigation devices. The president is also expected to take the unusual step of personally filing comments in the FCC’s proceeding. New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) has long supported set-top box reform and called on the FCC last year to create a technical standard that would foster third-party device competition.
Over the last 15 years, the idea of "killer robots" has morphed from science fiction to reality, with unmanned systems now a common feature in post–9/11 conflict zones. Just about everyone fighting the multi-sided war in Iraq and Syria, for instance, has used drones, from the US and Russia to the Syrian government and Hezbollah to the Islamic State.As robots have become more commonplace on the battlefield, fear has grown that they may be on their way to becoming too independent, too intelligent, and too autonomous, able to do more and more on their own without being steered from afar by human control or restriction.This is the topic of a United Nations–led meeting — entitled the "Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems" — wrapping up Friday in Geneva. The goal for many at this session is to fight a looming future, to ban the technology and ensure that a human stays at the center of the most important decision in war.But that ship may already have sailed — without need of a crew.
FEATURED STORY: TAX TIME AND FINANCIAL SECURITY
Monday marks the end of tax season, which is a good time to consider steps that can be taken to improve the tax filing process. In New America Weekly, Jane Oliphant and Michal Grinstein-Weiss explored how filing taxes could “become less cringe-inducing, and ...
