The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how ...
How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...
Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...
The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S.
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The Real Revolution Is Understanding: Jeremy Griffith and the Science That Could Heal Humanity
Why are humans so complicated? We’ve mastered the talk, the art, the tech – but not the peace. Humanity can build anything except understanding. For all our progress, we’re still divided by color, ...
Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements for the Third Edition; The Scientific Revolution and the Historiography of Science; Renaissance and Revolution; The Scientific Method; Magic and the Origins of ...
In recent years, social psychology and science overall have been undergoing a "credibility revolution" with a grassroots "open science" movement aiming to promote significant changes to the scientific ...
Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a “longhair” who had coined the word “cybernetics”* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now ...
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