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What exactly is a doctorate?
What getting a doctorate really means? Matt Might, professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, offers these...
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No Child Left Untableted
Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I...
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Welcome to the Age of Denial
IN 1982, polls showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created human beings in their present form....
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Warning Label: Big Pharma meets Big History
Why should Big Pharma invest in Big History? My answer is in the form of a warning label I...
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Science Journalism and the Art of Expressing Uncertainty
Journalism is filled with examples of erroneous reporting turning into received opinion when reporters, editors, and the public take...
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It’s Okay To Be Smart
It’s Okay To Be Smart is a blog and a YouTube show about science. But it’s probably not about...
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Veritasium
Veritasium is a science video blog featuring experiments, expert interviews, cool demos, and discussions with the public about everything...
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Scientific brain drain – what happens when the pipes are clogged?
A colleague at my institution recently invited a scientist with a “foreign-sounding” name to deliver a seminar. Foreign, yes,...
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Science Stakes: Britain’s Crowded Public-Science Scene Must Evolve
Since 1799, the Royal Institution of Great Britain has occupied a grand building in London’s Mayfair, surrounded today by...
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Mathematicians Aim to Take Publishers Out of Publishing
Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint...
