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Episode 85. SWOPSI: Joel Primack & Robert Jaffe
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Societal problems big and small typically have a scientific element, often in a central way, yet most scientists are not directly involved in policy. My guests sought to change that in 1969 when they created the Stanford Workshops on Social and Political Issues, or SWOPSI. SWOPSI was founded by three students, two of whom are with us today: Joel Primack and Robert Jaffe. The third student was Joyce Kobayashi. Also with us today is my uncle Frank, who worked on some of the early SWOPSI initiatives. In this episode, I ask Joel, Bob and Frank: How did they hack Stanford's rules for course credit to create workshops run by graduate students? What were the goals of SWOPSI? How effective were the workshops in tackling local vs. national or international problems? How did SWOPSI help to create programs for scientists to advise Congress on technical issues? Why did SWOPSI perish as an institution at Stanford? How has US military-sponsored research evolved since the Second World War? And is SWOPSI a good model for young scientists today who want to solve societal problems?
85 episoder
Manage episode 455038413 series 1941939
Societal problems big and small typically have a scientific element, often in a central way, yet most scientists are not directly involved in policy. My guests sought to change that in 1969 when they created the Stanford Workshops on Social and Political Issues, or SWOPSI. SWOPSI was founded by three students, two of whom are with us today: Joel Primack and Robert Jaffe. The third student was Joyce Kobayashi. Also with us today is my uncle Frank, who worked on some of the early SWOPSI initiatives. In this episode, I ask Joel, Bob and Frank: How did they hack Stanford's rules for course credit to create workshops run by graduate students? What were the goals of SWOPSI? How effective were the workshops in tackling local vs. national or international problems? How did SWOPSI help to create programs for scientists to advise Congress on technical issues? Why did SWOPSI perish as an institution at Stanford? How has US military-sponsored research evolved since the Second World War? And is SWOPSI a good model for young scientists today who want to solve societal problems?
85 episoder
Alla avsnitt
×1 Episode 85. SWOPSI: Joel Primack & Robert Jaffe 1:43:49
1 Episode 84. The Academy: Bret Stephens 1:51:22
1 Episode 83. Hebrew: Shalom Goldman 1:45:37
1 Episode 82. Jerusalem Archeology: Jodi Magness 1:42:51
1 Episode 81. Nuclear Disarmament: Steve Fetter 1:40:27
1 Episode 80. Soviet Nuclear Program: Thomas Cochran 2:07:46
1 Episode 79. Endocrine Disruption: Patricia Hunt 44:57
1 Episode 78. Szilard After The War: William Lanouette 46:56
1 Episode 77. Szilard's Chain Reaction: William Lanouette 1:44:37
1 Episode 76. Malaria & Reminiscences: Nobel Laureate Peter Agre 1:46:56
1 Episode 75. Retrospective: Oliver Sacks 1:26:12
1 Episode 74. Novichok: Vil Mirzayanov 1:55:36
1 Episode 73. Pascual Jordan's Duplicity: Ryan Dahn 1:08:56
1 Episode 72. Scientific Espionage: Eli Lake 1:46:14
1 Episode 71. Retrospective: The Franck-Hertz Experiment 38:20
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