S e t h S h u l m a n
Selected Articles & Reports
Historical Topics
"The Flight that Tamed the Skies," Technology Review, September 2002.
"The Dream of Personal Flight," Popular Science, July 2002.
"Unlocking the Legacies of the Edison Archives," Technology Review, February, 1997.
"Code Name: Corona," Technology Review, October, 1996.
Intellectual Property
"Two Patent-Related Scourges Addressed," xconomy.com, September 4, 2007.
"We Need New Ways to Own and Share Knowledge," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 19, 1999.
"It's Time for IP-Free Zones," ThomsonScientific.com, August 2000.
"Toward Sharing the Human Genome," Technology Review, September 2000. (Finalist for a 2001 National Magazine Award in the Public Interest Category)
"Patent Absurdities," The Sciences, January 1999.
"Software Patents Tangle the Web," Technology Review, March, 2000.
Environmental Topics
"Houses to Save the Earth," Parade, March 3, 1996.
"Toxic Responsibility: the U.S. military's problems of toxic waste disposal are as great as those of industry," The Atlantic, March 1989. (With Stephanie Pollack)
"A Case of Nerves: report from the Tooele Army Depot chemical-weapons incineration facility" Discover, November 1993. (with Dan Grossman)
"When a Nuclear Reactor Dies, $98 Million is a Cheap Funeral," Smithsonian, October 1989.
Selected Reports
"Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Change," a report for the Union of Concerned Scientists, January 2007.
"Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration’s Misuse of Science," a report for the Union of Concerned Scientists, March, 2004.
"Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: Further Investigation of the Bush Administration’s Misuse of Science," a report for the Union of Concerned Scientists, July, 2004.
"Trouble on the ‘Endless Frontier’: Science, Invention and the Erosion of the Technological Commons," a report for the New America Foundation, May 2002.
"Biohazard: How the Pentagon’s Biological Warfare Research Program Defeats Its Own Goals," a report for the Center for Public Integrity, 1993.
Selected Columns (Technology Review)
"The Vision Thing," May, 2003.
"Thinking like a Virus," July, 2003.
"Protecting People Above Patents," January, 2002.
"PB&J Patent Punch-up," May 2001.
"In Africa, Patents Kill," April, 2001.
"Populist Power Tools," January, 2001.
