If We Made Life in a Lab, Would We Understand it Differently?
By Rebecca Wilbanks Aeon What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists, argued the […]
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What Makes a Genius?
By Claudia Kalb National Geographic The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia houses an array of singular medical specimens. On the lower level the fused livers of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and […]
Why the Copenhagen Zoo Shot a Healthy Young Giraffe, Dissected it in Public, and Fed its Remains to Lions
By Ian Parker The New Yorker In 2014, not long after Marius, the giraffe, was shot in Copenhagen, a British zoo professional had a conversation with Bengt Holst, the Copenhagen […]
The Assault on Federally Supported Science
By Robert D. Atkinson The Christian Science Monitor Distrust of government has long focused on economic and cultural matters, with conservative luminaries from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan arguing that […]
Teaching Doubt in Schools
By Lawrence M. Krauss The New Yorker Last month, Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin and a presumed Presidential candidate, delivered an address at Chatham House, an international-affairs think tank […]
