Science Isn't Here for Your Mommy Shaming
When people sensationalize research, parents pay the price.
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You Can't Dissect a Virtual Cadaver
Last year, my first in medical school at Columbia University, I used a bone saw to slice through the top half of a cadaver's skull, revealing a gray brain lined with purple blood vessels. This was Clinical Gross Anatomy, the first-year course that has fascinated or devastated (or both) every medical student. You never forget the day you open the skull.
Here's How We'll Know an AI Is Conscious
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It's worth wondering, though, how a person or machine devoid of experience could reflect on experience it doesn’t have.
The Importance of Face Masks and the Tragedy of Downplaying Them
Let's start all over again about face masks. The noise about them is a Judas Priest blare. Can we turn down the volume for a moment?
Does Social Media Poison Everything?
The argument that we have the power to deal with the dangers of social media on our own can come across as cruelly individualistic tech-apologia.
The Trouble with Counting Alien Civilizations
You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes.
The Problem with Scientific Credit
An algorithm makes highly precise predictions about who will win the Nobel Prize but disagrees with the committee on the 2008 prize winner.
Why Garbage Science Gets Published
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
7 Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For
Nature seems to have a regular penchant for mocking scientists’ hopes and expectations.
19 Women Leading Math and Physics
The pipeline of women pursuing mathematics and physics is still dreadfully leaky.
The Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
Maybe Newtonian physics doesn’t need dark matter to work.
Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too
Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.
If Not Darwin, Who?
What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin?
Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist?
Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics.
What Counts as Science?
The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question.
The Thrill of Defeat
What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped, by Bob Goldstein
We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
The inconvenient truth is that scientists can achieve fame and advance their careers through accomplishments that do not prioritize the quality of their work.
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