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Why science and tech writing is not up to this moment: a note from the editor

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 •
Scientific Integrity •
History of Science •
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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

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

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Caleb Watney

The Egghead Gap

If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent.

Caleb Watney

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Symposium | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

The Integrity of Science

Saving Science
Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom
A Different Kind of Scientific Revolution
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