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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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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

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
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