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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 | Fall 2011

Fall 2011

  • Algis Valiunas

Abraham Maslow and the All-American Self

Why the prophet of self-actualization was more than just a New Age icon

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Spring 2011

Spring 2011

  • Jonathan B. Tucker

Could Terrorists Exploit Synthetic Biology?

On the potential risks of “de-skilling” bioengineering

Jonathan B. Tucker

Essay | Spring 2011

Spring 2011

  • Algis Valiunas

Psychology’s Magician

The life and career of Carl Jung, mystic scientist of the mind

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Winter 2011

Winter 2011

  • Hillel Ofek

Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science

On the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason

Hillel Ofek

State of the Art | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Daniel Eugene Williams

An American Education

Democracy and the Birth of the Land-Grant College

Daniel Eugene Williams

State of the Art | Spring 2010

Spring 2010

  • Travis Kavulla

Claude Lévi-Strauss, RIP

Searcher After the Savage Mind — and Ours

Travis Kavulla

Review | Spring 2010

Spring 2010

  • Algis Valiunas

Scientists Fallen Among Poets

What the Romantics learned from scientists, and vice versa

Algis Valiunas

Review | Fall 2009 - Winter 2010

Fall 2009 - Winter 2010

  • Algis Valiunas

Darwin’s World of Pain and Wonder

On the great scientist’s spiritual torment

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Summer 2009

Summer 2009

  • N. J. Slabbert

The Lost Prestige of Nuclear Physics

On the failure to find the American spirit in our scientific adventure

N. J. Slabbert

Review | Spring 2009

Spring 2009

  • John Derbyshire

In Search of Chinese Science

On Joseph Needham, sinologist and scientist

John Derbyshire

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