Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Maria Burke	Latest climate report sees a bigger role for adaptation The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that science can offer ways to adapt to climate change and reduce risk -- something that should be used in combination with cutting emissions.
Fast Company April 2014 Josh Dean	Meet The Radical Berkeley Artist Whose Company Is Turning Trash Into Electricity The Power Pallet was born in the brain of Jim Mason, a 46-year-old engineer-anthropologist and Burning Man installation artist. It is based on an arcane and mostly forgotten process known as gasification, which turns organic junk into gas.
Chemistry World March 28, 2014 Mark Peplow	A war on smog Growing public concern over the state of the environment has forced Chinese officials to take action. And where chemistry has often been seen as the villain of the piece, it is now set to play a vital role in cleaning the country's air.
Fast Company April 2014 Rachel Heller Zaimont	An Ad Agency Staffed By Former Addicts Support is an ingrained part of the office culture at Creative Matters, where all but one of the agency's 15 employees are recovering from drug or alcohol addiction.
Chemistry World March 24, 2014 Dannielle Whittaker	Carving out a future for biomass conversion to jet fuel Lignocellulose, a raw material in biomass, can be converted to biofuels and is often considered a long-term alternative to the diminishing supply of fossil fuels.
HBS Working Knowledge March 24, 2014 Michael Blanding	The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility Research by Christopher Marquis shows that a company's degree of social responsibility is affected by a surprising factor -- the language it uses to communicate.
Fast Company Rebecca Greenfield	Amazing Ad Concepts Created By Convicted Felons Concepting with Convicts is a project started by two advertising interns.
Chemistry World March 21, 2014 Hamish Crawford	Waste plastics unzipped into useful chemicals A team from Northland College in Wisconsin, and from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, have developed a way to depolymerize polyesters and polycarbonates into diols and methanol, using ruthenium based pincer catalysts.
Chemistry World March 20, 2014 Susannah May	Foaming security system gives thieves a surprise Thieves could inadvertently destroy their intended loot if they attack a cash machine made from a material being developed by scientists in Switzerland.
Chemistry World March 20, 2014 Emma Stoye	Super sensitive test hones in on performance enhancing drugs A new technique that increases the sensitivity of mass spectrometry could make it harder for athletes to cheat, by identifying minute traces of banned drug metabolites in urine that would otherwise go undetected.
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