Using the ocean to fight climate change raises serious environmental justice and technical questions

From planting mangroves to dumping minerals in the ocean, there are lots of ideas for ocean carbon dioxide removal – and even more questions.

Terre Satterfield, Professor of Culture, Risk and the Environment, University of British Columbia • conversation
Oct. 24, 2022 • ~10 min

Supreme Court grapples with animal welfare in a challenge to a California law requiring pork to be humanely raised

Pork producers are challenging a California law that animal welfare advocates call the most important measure for farm animal protection in decades.

David Favre, Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law, Michigan State University • conversation
Oct. 4, 2022 • ~10 min

Drone superhighways and airports are coming – let's make sure they don't make life miserable

Plans for a drone superhighway could change our skies.

Paul Cureton, Senior Lecturer in Design (People, Places, Products), Lancaster University • conversation
Aug. 23, 2022 • ~7 min

First synthetic embryos: the scientific breakthrough raises serious ethical questions

Adults today may have grown up dreaming they would live to see working jet packs and robot assistants but few people imagined it would be possible to create life without reproductive cells.

Tsutomu Sawai, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University • conversation
Aug. 11, 2022 • ~8 min

Abortion and bioethics: Principles to guide U.S. abortion debates

A bioethicist explains the four ethical principles that guide medical practitioners’ thinking about abortion, such as autonomy and justice.

Nancy S. Jecker, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington • conversation
June 23, 2022 • ~9 min

Developing countries are being left behind in the AI race – and that's a problem for all of us

While the developed world is making rapid technological progress, the developing world is underrepresented in the AI revolution.

Nina Dethlefs, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Hull • conversation
April 13, 2022 • ~8 min

Criminal justice algorithms: Being race-neutral doesn’t mean race-blind

A cornerstone of the First Step Act, passed with bipartisan support, is the PATTERN risk-assessment tool.

Jeremy Davis, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Florida • conversation
March 31, 2022 • ~10 min

How to investigate when a robot causes an accident – and why it's important that we do

Researchers have developed a black box for robots: an internal record of the robot’s inputs and actions. This will help investigate accidents and hopefully prevent future incidents.

Keri Grieman, Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford • conversation
March 24, 2022 • ~6 min

Fewer Americans are hunting, and that raises hard questions about funding conservation through gun sales

Every gun and bullet sold in the U.S. generates excise taxes to support conservation. But Americans are buying guns now for different reasons than in the past – and increasingly, not for hunting.

Christopher Rea, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University • conversation
March 21, 2022 • ~10 min

Think therapy is navel-gazing? Think again

Our research investigates the connections among mental health, holistic well-being and relational virtues – ideas that many people think of as ethical or religious.

Steven Sandage, Professor of psychology of religion and theology, Boston University • conversation
Feb. 22, 2022 • ~9 min

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