I believe our relationship to science education is overwhelmingly transactional. We sit in a chair, have information presented, imprint it in the old noggin and then are tested on how well we’ve ...

It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences. This is a serious mistake. The sciences and the humanities are ...

Lewens (Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges), a philosopher of science at Cambridge University, asks “a series of questions about the broad significance of scientific work” in this accessible ...

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Here at 13.7, one of the things we try to do is to spark discussion and reflection on some perennial questions, be they related to pressing issues such as global warming and the energy crisis or to ...

Perhaps because in the popular imagination meaning is mysterious and hard. We picture wise sages cloistered in remote caves meditating on the deepest questions of the universe, or larger than life ...

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