Born to Run? Little Ones Get Test for Sports Gene: When Donna Campiglia learned recently that a genetic test might be able to determine which sports suit the talents of her 2 ½-year-old son, Noah, she instantly said, Where can I get it and how much does it cost?
December 5th, 2008

The Minimal Impact of a Big Hypertension Study: The surprising news made headlines in December 2002. Generic pills for high blood pressure, which had been in use since the 1950s and cost only pennies a day, worked better than newer drugs that were up to 20 times as expensive.
December 1st, 2008

A Soldier, Taking Orders From Its Ethical Judgment Center: In the heat of battle, their minds clouded by fear, anger or vengefulness, even the best-trained soldiers can act in ways that violate the Geneva Conventions or battlefield rules of engagement.
November 28th, 2008

CSPO In the News

The Sociology of the Future: Tracing Stories of Technology and Time. CSPO Assistant Research Professor Cynthia Selin introduces the sociology of the future and suggests some ways the field is taking definition in an article in Sociology Compass.

Civic Epistemologies: Constituting Knowledge and Order in Political Communities. How do we know things? In this article in Sociology Compass, CSPO Associate Professor Clark Miller notes that the question of epistemology is crucial for political sociology.

Innovation policy: not just a jumbo shrimp: Policies that predict and direct innovative research might seem to be a practical impossibility, says CSPO Co-Director David H. Guston in this Nature Commentary, but social sciences point to a solution.

Can Technology Make you Better: As the future unfolds, the idea of mankind designed its own evolution through a mix of evolutionized technology is becoming a reality. In this exciting speech, CSPO's Daniel Sarewitz discusses the implications and the future of what is known as transhumanism.

Metaphysics of the anthropogenic earth, Part I: Integrative cognitivism. In this working paper, CSPO Affiliate Brad Allenby offers initial observations regarding challenges posed by an increasing importance of distributed cognitive networks that incorporate human, natural and technological elements.

What Pollsters Can Learn From Climate Modelers: CSPO's Clark Miller discusses in this guest column, how election pollers could benefit from employing the same successful principles that climate modelers have been using.

Characterizing the Public Value of Interagency Climate Science: Presented at the Copenhagen International Public Value Workshop by CSPO's own Ryan Meyer.
  » Additional papers from conference can be found here.

Men Guilty over Fake Penis Scam: The makers of a prosthetic penis to help men cheat on drugs tests have pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy in a US federal court.

Water-Repelling Metals: Researchers at GE have come up with a way to treat metals so that they repel water. The water-repelling property, called superhydrophobicity, means that water forms drops on the surface instead of spreading and sticking to it.

Carbon-Capturing Rock: Chemical reactions that pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the form of solid rock inside geological formations could offset billions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions each year.

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