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The Practice of Science

On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams

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Scientific Integrity •
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Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Algis Valiunas

A Scientist’s Mind, A Poet’s Soul

On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Case Against “STEM”

How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Caleb Watney

The Egghead Gap

If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent.

Caleb Watney

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Symposium | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

The Integrity of Science

Saving Science
Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom
A Different Kind of Scientific Revolution

Symposium | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

Science, Technology, and Religion

The Golem and the Limits of Artifice
Disenchantment and Its Discontents
Redeeming Technologies
The Trouble with the New “Islamic Science”
Implicit Science in Hindu Thought
Science through Buddhist Eyes
Science and the Search for Meaning

Symposium | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

The Unknown Newton

Church, Heresy, and Pure Religion
The Problem of Alchemy
Cosmos and Apocalypse
The Book of Nature, the Book of Scripture
The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers

Collection | Spring 2008

Spring 2008

Montesquieu and the Motives for Science

The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences
Montesquieu’s Popular Science
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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • M. Anthony Mills
  • Mark P. Mills

The Science Before the War

How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research

M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills

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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • Algis Valiunas

Turing and the Uncomputable

On logic come to life

Algis Valiunas

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Review | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Michael M. Rosen

Trouble for Hedgehogs

Are generalists due for a comeback?

Michael M. Rosen

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