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For U.S. Science, A Crisis Looms
The United States is at risk of ceding its leadership in science, a number of physicists said, though there...
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Scholarship, Liberated From Paper at Last
The evolution of digital scholarship is astounding. Today almost all research papers are born digital. Words, images, data, models—all...
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Signing Tennessee Anti-Evolution Bill Into Law Would Be ‘Dumb’
Among its more dubious claims to fame, Tennessee was the site of the 1925 “Monkey Trial,” in which John...
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Ph.D.s Are Leaving the Ivory Tower
Not so long ago, doctoral students were viewed as the galley slaves of the scientific world, spending long hours...
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For Science Ph.D.’s, There Is No One True Path
Last April the scientific journal Nature published a series of articles on the overproduction of Ph.D.’s in the sciences....
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Big Philanthropy’s Role in Higher Education
This is truly the era of the megafoundation. The private-philanthropic sector in the United States has experienced an explosion...
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Big History for the Era of Climate Change
Lack of understanding of environmental issues is an education problem and requires an education solution. So do we need...
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For Have-Nots, Rocky Road to College Degree Encourages Alternate Paths
In public forums about the drastic changes that higher ed may undergo in the coming years, one question inevitably...
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Cause and Effect: Judea Pearl Wins Turing Prize
Humans have always made inferences about causes and effects, sometimes based on scanty information. Many machines do now, too,...
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Study Reveals Toxins Even in ‘Safer’ Products
Consumer products such as shampoos and sunscreens, even ones touted as safer, may contain potentially harmful chemicals not listed...