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The ethics of driverless cars

Jason Millar, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy, spends a lot of time thinking about driverless cars. Though you aren鈥檛 likely to be able to buy them for 10 years, he says there are a number of ethical problems that need to be tackled before they go mainstream.

Bringing town teens to computer science

Brandon Turner leans over his keyboard and with a few key strokes shows what he鈥檚 spent this summer working on. A digital rendering of an enormous vertebra fossil appears on his computer screen, followed by a chipped femur and then the hulking skull of a haudrosaur, the duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous period.

Aid must act, not react

Following Japan鈥檚 2011 tsunami, Kiyoshi Kurokawa 鈥 chairman of the Fukushima Accident Independent Investigation Commission 鈥 described the Fukushima disaster as a 鈥減rofoundly man-made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented.鈥 It is this mentality that motivated the Japanese government to enact some of the world鈥檚 most stringent bui