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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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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Cormac McCarthy: The End of the Road
Mark C. Taylor At the age of ninety, Cormac McCarthy has published a remarkable two-volume novel that is, in my judgment, his best
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Winning the Lottery and Learning to Dream
Brad Holden on playing the lotto I should start with a confession—two, actually. The first is that I very recently purchased tickets for
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Becoming Self-Aware In Words: A Sanskrit Lexicon of Emotions
Sophus Helle on Words for the Heart Literacy begins with lexicons. An ancient Egyptian text named The Onomasticon of Amenope opens with a
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