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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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A Way to Reduce the Science Achievement Gap
Innovative teaching tools could compensate for gaps in knowledge
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Essential Advice for Fledgling Scientists
Among other things, practice humility—and remember that nature is the final arbiter of what’s true
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The Ditherer’s Mean
How to calculate an average if you’re indecisive ...
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Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science
New books by a physicist and science journalist mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses...
Life, Unbounded
The First Alien
When did we start talking about life from elsewhere?
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Why Can’t More Scientists Write Like Darwin?
The celebrated biologist and evolutionary theorist was also a master stylist who should be a model for how to communicate science
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Our Fabulous Floods of Fire and Ice Book List
Floods of lava, followed by floods of glacial lake water, formed some of the most intriguing landscapes in the American West. These books explore the remarkable geologic events involved...
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What Will We Do When the Sun Gets Too Hot for Earth’s Survival?
A BBC reporter asked. Here’s my answer
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How Do We Know What We Know?
Hint: it begins with “s” and ends with “cience"—and the ignorant are trying to trash it
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