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The Practice of Science

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

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Lives of Scientists •
Scientific Integrity •
History of Science •
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Review | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • David Kordahl

The Big Whimper

Why cosmology may not end with a bang

David Kordahl

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Sam Kahn

Bacon Bacon Shakespeare Spy

One brilliant madwoman’s quest to show that the Bard’s works were secretly penned by the father of science, at war with his own creation

Sam Kahn

Interview | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Harry Collins
  • M. Anthony Mills

Science as Craftwork with Integrity

The study of expertise itself helps us get past a “magic” view of science — and strengthen it against populist critiques.

Harry Collins and M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

Manufacturing Consensus

Science needs conformity — but not the kind it has right now.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Algis Valiunas

Anthropology as Atonement

Why Claude Lévi-Strauss celebrated every culture but his own

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

Is It Time for a U.S. Department of Science?

Messy pluralism is actually what makes American research great.

From: Available in Audio

M. Anthony Mills

Review | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • Tess Doezema

You Are Not Galileo

Are Anthony Fauci and Plandemic cranks both like the persecuted astronomer? It’s time to retire this trope.

Tess Doezema

Review | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • David Guaspari

Math and Modernity

How Descartes’s geometry quietly launched a revolution

David Guaspari

Essay | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • Nathan Beacom

Chasing the Sun

The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart

From: Available in Audio

Nathan Beacom

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

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