H. T. Goranson
H. T. Goranson is the Lead Scientist for Earl Research and was a Senior Scientist with the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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2011-04-05
| The immediate political response to the Japanese nuclear disaster will be to make small re-adjustments among known energy sources, including wind and solar. But the current options that many governments wish to embrace will not do the job.... read |
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2009-01-05
| The new year is beginning with Microsoft previewing its next-generation operating system, Windows 7, which is remarkable only in that it is almost the same as every previous version. But if we place form, in its broadest sense, at the heart of the user interface, we can begin to imagine designs that enable multiple levels of understanding and thus convey complex subtleties.... read |
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2008-10-22
| The public attention that the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has received is rare for scientific news, perhaps owing to concerns that something celestially dangerous is being cooked up in our backyard. But the collider's real importance consists in its potential to alter radically the way think – and not just about science.... read |
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2007-09-05
| The sky is a unique domain, and one that is inadequately regulated. With the advent of global pollutions and technologies, remedying that has become more urgent than ever.... read |
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2006-12-19
| For a few hundred years, when science and mathematics were enjoying a period of great invention, one region of the world stood out. Masters of these disciplines were revered there, medicine advanced quickly, and the average person was curious about how nature worked. Not surprisingly, this region was globally respected. ... read |
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2006-11-29
| A Sydney-based Muslim cleric, Sheik Hilaly, recently made headlines in Australia when he publicly reflected that immodest women invite rape because they are like “uncovered meat.” More unfortunate still was his implication that this was the cause of a series of gang rapes in Sydney in 2000, in which the attackers’ legal defense was that they thought the women were sexually available because they wore Western clothes. ... read |
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2006-09-01
| Five years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September, 2001, yet it seems that policymakers have learned little about how terrorist cells operate, and what their weaknesses are. The Bush administration still uses the phrase “war on terror” and behaves as though it really is a war, the ordinary kind where one government fights another. Yet after five years of military exertions, strategies based on targeting a united aggressor have only made the situation worse. It is time to understand the new, emerging model of conflict. ... read |
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2006-03-16
| A few times each year, the world is reminded that a pandemic threat is immanent. In 2003, it was SARS. Today, it is a potential avian virus similar to the one that killed 30 million people after 1914. ... read |
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2006-01-12
| Scientific research is usually conducted to improve our lives, but it is also an industry, one that represents a massive investment by governments and corporations alike. The stakes and potential rewards for a few research topics are exceptionally high, which is why the recent finding that the Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk fabricated the results of his work on stem cells has reverberated so widely. ... read |
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Local Science for Large Disasters
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H. T. Goranson 
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The earth produces a reliable stream of disasters. Some, like AIDS, are chronic; others, like earthquakes or hurricane Katrina, are sudden displays of natural force. In each case, it is expected that a well-financed relief effort will descend from a wealthier region. But importing assistance may not only be less effective; it might actually cause more damage in the long run.... read
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2006-03-16
| A few times each year, the world is reminded that a pandemic threat is immanent. In 2003, it was SARS. Today, it is a potential avian virus similar to the one that killed 30 million people after 1914. ... read |
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2005-09-01
| An unusual meeting of scientists took place in Paris this summer, when scientists gathered to brainstorm about the need for a new science, one that could be as revolutionary as Einstein’s insights were a century ago.... read |
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2006-01-12
| Scientific research is usually conducted to improve our lives, but it is also an industry, one that represents a massive investment by governments and corporations alike. The stakes and potential rewards for a few research topics are exceptionally high, which is why the recent finding that the Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk fabricated the results of his work on stem cells has reverberated so widely. ... read |
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2005-09-15
| The earth produces a reliable stream of disasters. Some, like AIDS, are chronic; others, like earthquakes or hurricane Katrina, are sudden displays of natural force. In each case, it is expected that a well-financed relief effort will descend from a wealthier region. But importing assistance may not only be less effective; it might actually cause more damage in the long run.... read |
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2006-09-01
| Five years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September, 2001, yet it seems that policymakers have learned little about how terrorist cells operate, and what their weaknesses are. The Bush administration still uses the phrase “war on terror” and behaves as though it really is a war, the ordinary kind where one government fights another. Yet after five years of military exertions, strategies based on targeting a united aggressor have only made the situation worse. It is time to understand the new, emerging model of conflict. ... read |
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2006-11-29
| A Sydney-based Muslim cleric, Sheik Hilaly, recently made headlines in Australia when he publicly reflected that immodest women invite rape because they are like “uncovered meat.” More unfortunate still was his implication that this was the cause of a series of gang rapes in Sydney in 2000, in which the attackers’ legal defense was that they thought the women were sexually available because they wore Western clothes. ... read |
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2009-01-05
| The new year is beginning with Microsoft previewing its next-generation operating system, Windows 7, which is remarkable only in that it is almost the same as every previous version. But if we place form, in its broadest sense, at the heart of the user interface, we can begin to imagine designs that enable multiple levels of understanding and thus convey complex subtleties.... read |
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2006-12-19
| For a few hundred years, when science and mathematics were enjoying a period of great invention, one region of the world stood out. Masters of these disciplines were revered there, medicine advanced quickly, and the average person was curious about how nature worked. Not surprisingly, this region was globally respected. ... read |
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2008-10-22
| The public attention that the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has received is rare for scientific news, perhaps owing to concerns that something celestially dangerous is being cooked up in our backyard. But the collider's real importance consists in its potential to alter radically the way think – and not just about science.... read |
