Science & technology
Discovery, digital life and the questions raised by new knowledge.
Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost?
An argument that space exploration merits public investment when it is pursued for measurable scientific and practical purposes, while recognizing that it must compete with urgent needs on Earth.
Should Schools Ban Cellphones? Weighing Focus Against Digital Skills
An argument for restricting personal cellphone use during lessons while preserving instructional, practical, and emergency access—and for judging policy by its effects rather than assuming a ban solves every problem.
Why an AI Chatbot's Confident Answer May Still Need Checking
A fluent answer can sound authoritative without showing how its claims are supported. This essay explains how to distinguish presentation from evidence, using U.S. examples in teen chatbot use, child privacy, and vehicle safety.
Should Science Education Emphasize Questions as Well as Answers?
A developed argument that science education should teach established knowledge alongside the practices of questioning, investigating, and revising explanations.
Scientific Discovery: Understanding the World or Its Complexity
A model argument that scientific discovery improves understanding while also revealing complexity, and that the second view better captures science as an ongoing process.
Does More AI Use Mean More Trust in AI?
An explanatory essay distinguishes how often people use AI from how much they trust it, using Pew Research Center’s survey of U.S. teens and NHTSA’s descriptions of driver-assistance systems to show what adoption can—and cannot—tell us.
Why Repairing a Scientific Instrument Can Be an Investment in Discovery
An explanatory essay on how Hubble’s servicing history connected maintenance and technological upgrades to sustained astronomical research.
GRE Issue Essay on Government Limits on Scientific Research
A qualified argument for broad scientific freedom paired with narrow, accountable safeguards when research presents serious risks or public funding threatens independent judgment.
Why AI Literacy Should Include Knowing When Not to Use AI
AI literacy is not simply the ability to operate a tool. It includes judging whether a task suits AI, weighing the consequences of errors, and verifying outputs—or choosing not to use AI when people, privacy, or safety require a different approach.
How the Hubble Telescope Changed Our View of the Universe
An explanatory essay about how Hubble’s observations—from planetary atmospheres and stellar light echoes to deep-field galaxies—have contributed to scientific understanding and reshaped astronomy.
GRE Practice: The Costs of Saving Endangered Species
An argumentative essay weighing the costs of protecting endangered species against conservation’s broader public value, using New Deal programs to examine both the potential benefits and the risks of costly public action.
Technology, Efficiency, and Leisure Time: GRE Issue Essay
An argumentative essay weighing when efficiency can create usable leisure against other benefits and costs of technological progress, using historical examples and a clearly identified hypothetical case.