What Does “Scientific Progress” Mean, Anyway?
Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck
Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise
Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck
Here lies a beloved friend of social harmony (ca. 1500–2000). It was nice while it lasted.
The retreat from time is not a winning answer to our tech malaise.
Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage.
Jacques Ellul on escaping the totalizing grip of “technique”
Why Claude Lévi-Strauss celebrated every culture but his own
On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer
How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk
Why the swamp and its drainers were both blind to the threat