We Can’t Innovate Our Way Out of Ecocide
April 22, 2024
Gregory M. Thaler— Palm oil is the world’s most traded vegetable oil, popping up in everything from ice cream to packaged bread to lipstick. This global glut of cheap palm-based… READ MORE
Category: Technology
Prius Politics: How Toyota Won the Hybrid Car Market
April 8, 2024
Uri Gneezy— In 1999, just a few months apart, Toyota and Honda introduced their hybrid cars to the US market. They were the first, and much anticipated, hybrid cars in… READ MORE
The High-Tech Revolution is Transforming the Very Foundations of Human Existence
April 4, 2024
Bruce Ackerman— For the first time in history, all of us are living two lives at once — engaging in distant relationships on the internet while dealing with one another… READ MORE
Earth Month Reading List 2024
April 1, 2024
First observed on April 22nd, 1970, Earth Day mobilizes support for environmental protection across the globe. Earth Month emerged in 1990, reconizing the global impact of Earth Day. Celebrate Earth… READ MORE
Navigating A Saltier Future
March 22, 2024
David Sedlak— World Water Day normally includes discussions about the struggle to provide water to meet the needs of people and the environment. In the coming decades, crises related to… READ MORE
Ep. 117 —What Do The Beatles and Measurement Have in Common?
July 28, 2023
This episode of the podcast features a conversation with renowned physicist Piero Martin about his new book, The Seven Measures of the World. In the podcast, Martin talks about how The Beatles are connected… READ MORE
Teaching Writing in an AI World
July 10, 2023
Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim and Jennifer Redmann— Our AI world poses renewed challenges for educators. How do we address AI-supported learning conditions that disincentivize “hard” work in favor of a potentially “easy”… READ MORE
Measurements for a Green World
July 5, 2023
Piero Martin— Will measurements save the world? Or, better, our life as humans on this planet? Certainly, they will help. Actually, they are already doing an important job since—much better… READ MORE
How Many Ways Can We Make Something Invisible?
April 11, 2023
Gregory J. Gbur— Invisibility—the ability to make something invisible to visible light—has long been assumed by science to be impossible. This changed in 2006, when two groups of researchers published… READ MORE
New Directions Toward a Clean Energy Future
February 23, 2023
Daniel S. Cohan— After reaffirming the Paris Agreement on his first day in office, President Biden in November 2021 issued a national strategy for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by… READ MORE
Between Memory and History