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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 | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • Algis Valiunas

Richard Feynman and the Pleasure Principle

How a cerebral hedonist became a scientific hero

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Waleed Al-Shobakky

The University the King Built

A Saudi experiment in education aims to solve the West’s science malaise — and become a global research powerhouse.

Waleed Al-Shobakky

Essay | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

  • Algis Valiunas

The Evangelist of Molecular Biology

James D. Watson’s unfinished quest to master genetic destiny

Algis Valiunas

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Correspondence | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

Must Science Be Useful?

Scientists and policy experts respond to Daniel Sarewitz’s “Saving Science”

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Daniel Sarewitz

Saving Science

Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world.

From: The Integrity of Science

Daniel Sarewitz

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Ivan Oransky
  • Adam Marcus

Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom

From: The Integrity of Science

Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Barbara A. Spellman

A Different Kind of Scientific Revolution

From: The Integrity of Science

Barbara A. Spellman

Essay | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Chase W. Nelson

The Humble Scientist

Chase W. Nelson

Review | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Michael W. Begun

Einstein’s Masterpiece

Retracing the path to general relativity

Michael W. Begun

Essay | Spring 2015

Spring 2015

  • Algis Valiunas

The Man Who Thought of Everything

The grand scientific vision and the moral myopia of Linus Pauling

Algis Valiunas

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