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Celebrating Impractical Physicists
Do you think cutting-edge scientists should earn as much as star athletes, celebrity artists or Wall Street bankers? The...
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Uncovering the World’s Unseen Science
Global comparisons of scientific output are commonplace. As non-experts, policymakers and administrators must rely on indexes of impact and...
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Biased Observers of Nature
Scientists are not robots recording events using mechanically objective methods. Like all human beings, scientists have biases. Indeed, the...
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A Blip That Speaks of Our Place in the Universe
It is natural for those not deeply involved in the half-century quest for the Higgs Boson – one of...
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Evo-Bio of Religion: Overshoot Hypotheses, Continued
From David Barash at The Chronicle’s Brainstorm blog: When it comes to evolution and human beings, what we don’t...
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Text Mining Medicine
Researchers should scour historic medical archives to discover knowledge that could inform today’s biomedical research and clinical practice.
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Why Our Brains Love Origins
We like to know where things come from. We like stories. We like nice tales. We need our myths,...
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What Science Wants to Know
Ignorance will always grow faster than knowledge. Scientists and laypeople alike Âwould agree that for all we have come...
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Scientists Nominate Their Favorite Deep, Elegant, Beautiful Explanations
Scientists’ greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of...