Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning
Philip Ball Read as aPDF. Conflict or Consilience? The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but
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Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire
Madeline Grimm on John M. MacKenzie Historians have long struggled to tell the complete story of the British empire, in part because Britain’s
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Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years
Joshua Teplitsky on Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague As the COVID-19 pandemic seems both behind us and still present as a threat and a
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Can Science Be Unified? Oneness and Its Discontents
Lisa H. Sideris Read as a PDF. Deep within we long for unity because, at the most fundamental level, we are already one. We belong
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What is Scientific Truth—And Why Does it Keep Changing?
Lorraine Daston Read as a PDF. Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s? The SARS-COV-2 pandemic turned virologists
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Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
Iain McGilchrist Read as a PDF. In the lecture series given in Cambridge in 1951 that formed the basis of his book Science
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A Nook of Her Own: Virginia Woolf, Class, and the Creative Life
Alexandra Barylski Space is our birthright. So it is imperative that we have some of our own. City dwellers confront this need in
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Science and the Idea of Progress
Peter Harrison Read as a PDF. The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the
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Forbidden Hunger: The Rabbis’ Path to Wellness
Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli My Auntie lied about literature, extensively and very well. Sometimes she would take it into her head to gather the kids
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From Nuclear Radiology to The Bhagavad Gita: An Interview with Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar—novelist, poet, translator, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist—interviewed by Samuel Loncar, Editor-in-Chief of The Marginalia Review of Books. Introduction As a part
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