Nicole K. Mayberry

Apr 17, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Michael Crow |Nicole K. Mayberry |Ted Mitchell |Derrick Anderson

The rapidly expanding use of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools has fired up a fervent debate in academia.

Jan 9, 2024 | issues.org | Michael Crow |Nicole K. Mayberry |Derrick Anderson |Vol. XL

In “What a Coin From 1792 Reveals About America’s Scientific Enterprise” (Issues, Fall 2023), Michael M. Crow, Nicole K. Mayberry, and Derrick M. Anderson make an adroit analogy between the origins of the Birch Cent and the two sides of the nation’s research endeavors, namely democracy and science. The noise and seeming dysfunction in the way science is adjudicated and revealed is, they say, a feature and not a bug. I agree.

Nov 20, 2023 | issues.org | Michael Crow |Nicole K. Mayberry |Derrick Anderson |Jay Lloyd

The Birch Cent from 1792 is an important artifact of how the American scientific enterprise has been shaped, both as a driver of national progress and an expression of liberty. It’s thought that the very first coin ever produced by the United States Mint was made on a screw press in a Philadelphia basement in 1792, in the presence of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. According to rumor, only ten of these prototype coins were made because the design was discontinued.