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The Jane Goodalls: Women in Science Defying the Odds
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .
Sep 27, 2024

The Paradigm Shift: A New Vision of Science and Religion with Peter Harrison
PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .
Nov 10, 2023


NASA’s Psyche Mission: Lindy Elkins-Tanton in Conversation with Philip Ball
Their conversation is lively and illuminating as they discuss the importance of teamwork for the NASA launch. . .
Oct 27, 2023


Remembering Stephen Gaukroger: The History of Science and Philosophy
PETER HARRISON | Stephen Gaukroger was an eminent British-Australian scholar who specialized in the history of science and the history of...
Sep 28, 2023

Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning
PHILIP BALL | The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but
Jun 23, 2023


Can Science Be Unified? Oneness and Its Discontents
LISA H. SIDERIS | Deep within we long for unity because, at the most fundamental level, we are already one.
May 12, 2023


Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Philosophy and science alike take as their ultimate aim to enlarge our understanding of Science & Humanism
Apr 14, 2023

Science and the Idea of Progress
PETER HARRISON | The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the progress
Mar 30, 2023


Science and the Healing of the World: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part Two
TOM McLEISH | Science is more about questions than answers, and that the critical imaginative move in science is to conceive of the creative
Feb 16, 2023


Science Is a Long Story: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part One
TOM McLEISH | My grandmother actually was an important influence on me. She had done a degree at London University in the twenties
Feb 2, 2023


Why Einstein Wouldn’t Be Published Today: A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part Two
LORRAINE DASTON | Einstein’s 1905 article on special relativity is an article that no respectable physics journal today would print
Nov 11, 2022


Does Science Need History? A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part One
LORRAINE DASTON | If there is one moral to the history of science it is: whatever we believe now, we probably won’t believe
Oct 28, 2022
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