Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

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Recent Articles

Recent Articles

A. Applebaum,”Italians Decided to Fight a Conspiracy Theory. Here’s What Happened Next,” The Washington Post, August 8, 2019. 

A.M. Barry-Jester, “What Went Wrong in Flint,” FiveThirtyEight, January 26, 2016.

A. Becket, “The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism,” The Guardian, June 25, 2019.

N. Boudette, “Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars are ‘Way in the Future,’” The New York Times, July 17, 2019.

J.E. Bromwich, “Death of a Biohacker,” New York Times, May 19, 2018.

D. Cox, “The Roundup row: is the world’s most popular weedkiller carcinogenic?” The Guardian, March 9, 2019.

J. Donovan and B. Paris, “Beware the Cheapfakes,” Slate Magazine, June 12, 2019. 

D. V. Drehle, “There’s no scientific consensus that humanity is doomed,” Washington Post, June 25, 2019.

L. Friedman, “E.P.A. Plans to Get Thousands of Pollution Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math,” New York Times, May 20, 2019.

N. Gilbert, “GM crop escapes into the American wild,” Nature News, August 6, 2010.

R. Godwin, “One giant … lie? Why so many people still think the moon landings were faked,” The Guardian, July 10, 2019, 

J. Healy, “When Can Fetuses Feel Pain? Utah Abortion Law and Doctors Are at Odds,” New York Times, May 4, 2016.

A. Hollis-Brusky and R. VanSickle-Ward, “Here are Two Ways that Breyer’s Wonky Opinion in Whole Women’s Health Could Transform Abortion Politics,” Washington Post, July 3, 2016.

I.L.O. “The Rana Plaza Accident and its aftermath,” International Labor Organization. (See also Safi 2018).

C. F. Jones, “Fraud, Failure, and Frustration: This Is the Story of America’s First Energy Transition,” The Atlantic, April 15, 2014.

Kingsbury, “In Trump I Trust,” New York Times, July 16, 2019.

N. Klein, “How science is telling us all to revolt,” New Statesmen, October 29, 2013.

J. Lettieri and S. Glickman, “Economic Inequality and Health Inequality Are Inextricably Linked,” CITYLAB, December 5, 2017.

J. Loeffler, “Boeing 737 MAX 8 Likely Grounded for Rest of 2019 After New Concerns Raised,” Interesting Engineering, July 29, 2019.

Matei, “1.5 million people have signed up to storm Area 51. What could go wrong?” The Guardian, July 17, 2019.

J. Meek, “Somerdale to Skarbimierz,” London Review of Books, April 20, 2017.

M. Molina and D. Z. Zaelke, “A Climate Success Story to Build On,” New York Times, September 25, 2012.

K. Munger, “The Rise and Fall of the Palo Alto Consensus,” New York Times, July 10, 2019.

E. Peltier et al., “Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved,” New York Times, July 17, 2019.

M. Read, “How Much of the Internet is Fake? Turns out, a lot of it, actually,” New York Magazine, December 16, 2018.

A. C. Revkin, “From Lynas to Pollan, Agreement that Golden Rice Trials Should Proceed,” New York Times, August 27, 2013.

M. Rich, “Struggling With Japan’s Nuclear Waste, Six Years After Disaster,” New York Times, March 11, 2017.

M. Safi, “Bangladesh to eject safety inspectors brought in after Rana Plaza disaster,” The Guardian, November 18, 2018.

M. Sanger-Katz, “Income Inequality: It’s Also Bad for Your Health,” New York Times, March 30, 2015.

S. Saxe, “I’m an Engineer, and I’m Not Buying Into ‘Smart’ Cities,” New York Times, July 16, 2019.

Various authors, “The Rev-up: Imagining a 20% Self-Driving World,” New York Times Magazine, November 8, 2017.

J.C. Wong, “’We all suffer’: why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed,” The Guardian, July 1, 2019.

A. Zurcher, “Scott Pruitt resigns: The EPA’s chief’s long list of controversies,” BBC News, July 5, 2018.