By now, you have probably read or heard that our polluting ways have reached a critical point, where Earth is rapidly approaching total failure as a planet. Perhaps you have wondered how we humans could have managed to do so much damage in so little time.
Permanent settlements in space will require forms of localized government that are likely to differ from contemporary models of political order. This article thus asks a provocative question associated with the empirical record of human colonization and settlement in prior eras: What sort of authoritarian governance is most likely to form in human space settlements during the medium term?
Monica Tavarez Frias -- Saint Patrick School of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Introduction
What if the key to time travel isn’t hidden within the depths of...
Martina Guja Zagonel – Liceo Scientifico Bonaventura Cavalieri, Verbania, Italy
Introduction
With recent advancements and ongoing progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), it's conceivable that in the...
Sebastian Sousa -- St. Patrick’s School of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Introduction
Have you ever experienced an eerie coincidence? Thinking of someone just as they call...
Milena Niemczyk -- 1st Nicolaus Copernicus Secondary School, Bielsko-Biata, Poland
Introduction
Our eyes have always been directed towards the night sky. The inventions of the telescope and...
By now, you have probably read or heard that our polluting ways have reached a critical point, where Earth is rapidly approaching total failure as a planet. Perhaps you have wondered how we humans could have managed to do so much damage in so little time.
Permanent settlements in space will require forms of localized government that are likely to differ from contemporary models of political order. This article thus asks a provocative question associated with the empirical record of human colonization and settlement in prior eras: What sort of authoritarian governance is most likely to form in human space settlements during the medium term?
Earth sits right in the Goldilocks zone. Venus, only a little closer to the sun, has a surface hot enough to melt lead, and Mars is cold enough to have dry ice -- C02 -- at its poles. What can the atmospheres of these three planets tell us about the future of our climate?
It is tempting to say that any well-educated person should know what it takes to be scientifically literate. But what does scientific literacy really involve? Given that scientific literacy is a key goal of most science education standards and frameworks, considerable ink has been dedicated to utilizing the term in pedagogical papers.
