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The Practice of Science

On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams

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Lives of Scientists •
Scientific Integrity •
History of Science •
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Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Case Against “STEM”

How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk

M. Anthony Mills

Symposium | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

Science, Technology, and Religion

The Golem and the Limits of Artifice
Disenchantment and Its Discontents
Redeeming Technologies
The Trouble with the New “Islamic Science”
Implicit Science in Hindu Thought
Science through Buddhist Eyes
Science and the Search for Meaning

Symposium | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

The Unknown Newton

Church, Heresy, and Pure Religion
The Problem of Alchemy
Cosmos and Apocalypse
The Book of Nature, the Book of Scripture
The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers
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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • M. Anthony Mills
  • Mark P. Mills

The Science Before the War

How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research

M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills

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Review | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • David Kordahl

Did Thomas Kuhn Kill Truth?

A debate on the nature of truth turns into a squabble over whether the father of the “paradigm shift” threw an ashtray at Errol Morris’s head.

David Kordahl

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Natalie Elliot

Shakespeare’s Worlds of Science

New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?

Natalie Elliot

Essay | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

  • Algis Valiunas

The Evangelist of Molecular Biology

James D. Watson’s unfinished quest to master genetic destiny

Algis Valiunas

Review | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Michael W. Begun

Einstein’s Masterpiece

Retracing the path to general relativity

Michael W. Begun

Essay | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

  • Stephen D. Snobelen

Cosmos and Apocalypse

Physics, prophecy, and the myth of Newton's clockwork universe

From: The Unknown Newton

Stephen D. Snobelen

Essay | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

  • William R. Newman

The Problem of Alchemy

Was Newton really “the last of the magicians”?

From: The Unknown Newton

William R. Newman

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