Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Patents, Agency, and Environment
by Richard L. Hindle
A history of innovation in physical infrastructure and large-scale complex systems.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Research Ransoms
Leah Meisterlin in conversation with Samantha Parsons from UnKoch My Campus
On expelling undue influence.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Private Choices, Public Spaces
by Lori Brown
Field notes from Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
The Trouble with Certainty
by Avigail Sachs
An op-ed on the wickedness of application.
Announcements
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 05 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST “Conflicts of interest” are said to compromise the impartiality of research, but what would it mean to be disinterested? Ethical codes warn us that researchers’ objectivity can be corrupted by a clashing set of interests—those of funding agencies, clients and publics, as well as researchers’ self-interest in […]
LABORATORY SERIES. No.22. DARPA’s new Biological Technologies Office (BTO). Launched in April 1, 2014, the BTO is charged with exploring the intersection of biology, engineering and computer science to harness natural systems for national security. “Biology is nature’s ultimate innovator, and any agency that hangs its hat on innovation would be foolish not to look at this master of networked complexity for inspiration and solutions.” – DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar to U.S. House of Representatives, March 26, 2014. Photo Courtesy of DARPA.
