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The Science of Big Science
Science is getting bigger. Just about every scientific discipline — astronomy, conservation, drug development, genetics, neuroscience, physics — is...
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The Truth is No Stranger Than Fiction When it Comes to Robots
Robots represent the cutting edge in science. For decades we have been promised a bright future in which these...
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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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Steven Pinker embraces scientism. Bad move, I think
Steven Pinker has written a long essay in The New Republic embracing scientism. That's really too bad, because this...
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Science Is Not Your Enemy
The great thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment were scientists. Not only did many of them...
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Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen
What’s the point of the humanities? Of studying philosophy, history, literature and “soft” sciences like psychology and poly sci?...
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The philosophy of the Higgs
Many of the great physicists of the 20th century have appreciated the importance of philosophy for science. Einstein, for...
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Large Hadron Collider Is Set to Halt for Upgrades
With the discovery of the Higgs boson or something very like it under its belt, the world’s most powerful...
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Are We Running Out Of Scientific Geniuses?
Is the world clear out of geniuses? Will we ever have another Copernicus, another Darwin, another Einstein to shatter...
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Is Scientific Truth Always Beautiful?
Does science have a “beauty” problem? David Orrell, a mathematician and consultant, argues that it does—or, at least, that...