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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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Lives of Scientists •
Scientific Integrity •
History of Science •
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Essay | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Algis Valiunas

The Most Dangerous Possible German

On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb

Algis Valiunas

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Nick Barrowman

Why Data Is Never Raw

On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment

Nick Barrowman

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Algis Valiunas

Jonas Salk, the People’s Scientist

How the man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers

Algis Valiunas

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Review | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • David Kordahl

Did Thomas Kuhn Kill Truth?

A debate on the nature of truth turns into a squabble over whether the father of the “paradigm shift” threw an ashtray at Errol Morris’s head.

David Kordahl

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Natalie Elliot

Shakespeare’s Worlds of Science

New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?

Natalie Elliot

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Essay | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • Algis Valiunas

Richard Feynman and the Pleasure Principle

How a cerebral hedonist became a scientific hero

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Waleed Al-Shobakky

The University the King Built

A Saudi experiment in education aims to solve the West’s science malaise — and become a global research powerhouse.

Waleed Al-Shobakky

Essay | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

  • Algis Valiunas

The Evangelist of Molecular Biology

James D. Watson’s unfinished quest to master genetic destiny

Algis Valiunas

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Correspondence | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

Must Science Be Useful?

Scientists and policy experts respond to Daniel Sarewitz’s “Saving Science”

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Barbara A. Spellman

A Different Kind of Scientific Revolution

From: The Integrity of Science

Barbara A. Spellman

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