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ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .

PHILIP BALL | There’s one thing that distinguishes living matter from nonliving matter, it is this notion of agency.

A profound but quiet transformation in biology is changing the way we think about life.

NICK SPENCER | The British have never felt a particularly pressing need formally to define science. . .Not so America.

VITTORIO HÖSLE | Where does the enthusiasm of the 18th century for the humanities come from?

VITTORIO HÖSLE | We must try to develop again a worldview in which scientific and ethical thinking. . .

VITTORIO HÖSLE | Long into the nineteenth century science and natural philosophy were connected, and that one of the great events in . . .

AVI LOEB | We cannot jump off the train of time as we age. It keeps going, so we better look through its windows. . .

PETER HARRISON | Studying how science actually works as a human enterprise—with fallible human actors—gives you a very different view. . .

PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .