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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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State of the Art | Spring 2009

Spring 2009

  • Liam Julian

The Rise of Cyber-Schools

Online Education and Its Enemies

Liam Julian

Essay | Fall 2008

Fall 2008

  • Waleed Al-Shobakky

Petrodollar Science

Waleed Al-Shobakky

Review | Summer 2008

Summer 2008

  • John Derbyshire

The Brat Pack of Quantum Mechanics

John Derbyshire

Essay | Spring 2008

Spring 2008

  • Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu

The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences

From: Montesquieu and the Motives for Science

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu

Essay | Spring 2008

Spring 2008

  • Diana Schaub

Montesquieu’s Popular Science

On the study of science and the life of the mind

From: Montesquieu and the Motives for Science

Diana Schaub

Review | Spring 2008

Spring 2008

  • Algis Valiunas

Einstein’s Quest for Truth

On the mind of the man behind relativity

Algis Valiunas

State of the Art | Summer 2007

Summer 2007

  • Stephen Bertman

The Man in the Moon

Remembering Loren Eiseley

Stephen Bertman

Essay | Winter 2007

Winter 2007

  • Jerry Weinberger

The Scientific Mind of Ben Franklin

Jerry Weinberger

Looking Back | Winter 2007

Winter 2007

Sterile Thinking

State of the Art | Fall 2006

Fall 2006

  • Christine Rosen

The Touchy-Feely Laboratory

The Latest Angst About Women in Science

Christine Rosen

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