Word: daedalus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Holton says Daedalus was never designed to be a "science" journal, but rather a journal for scholars in many fields...
Holton says one issue of Daedalus in particular, in which the magazine focused on arms control during the Cold War era, exemplifies the journal as a medium through which intellectuals can voice their ideas and differences on matters of national import...
Holton says the journal is always at the forefront of intellectual thought and discourse. In the 1960s, the academy published two successive issues on the state of blacks in the U.S. titled "The Negro American," which "no foundation dared to support," Holton says. However, these Daedalus issues managed to carry an introduction by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson...
Furthermore, Holton says Einstein's work reflects the all-inclusive aim of Daedalus...
...addition to Daedalus, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences commissions studies which lead to the publication of books and studies on a wide range of interdisciplinary issues such as environment and ecology, intellect and imagination and defense policy...