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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 •
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Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Spencer A. Klavan

You Are Not an Ape-Brained Meat Sack

In quantum mechanics, a physics that cares

Spencer A. Klavan

Review | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • David Kordahl

The Big Whimper

Why cosmology may not end with a bang

David Kordahl

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

Manufacturing Consensus

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

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 | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Case Against “STEM”

How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk

M. Anthony Mills

Symposium | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

Science, Technology, and Religion

The Golem and the Limits of Artifice
Disenchantment and Its Discontents
Redeeming Technologies
The Trouble with the New “Islamic Science”
Implicit Science in Hindu Thought
Science through Buddhist Eyes
Science and the Search for Meaning

Symposium | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

The Unknown Newton

Church, Heresy, and Pure Religion
The Problem of Alchemy
Cosmos and Apocalypse
The Book of Nature, the Book of Scripture
The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers
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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • M. Anthony Mills
  • Mark P. Mills

The Science Before the War

How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research

M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills

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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

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