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Performance poet and writer Hannah Chutzpah asked on Twitter: What are the technical terms, in your field, for 'dunno'? In medici...

The accepted practice is instead to adjust the model so that it continues to agree with the lack of empirical support. This very Zen statem...

Christian Catalini, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Patrick Gaulé in Vox.eu : Cheaper flights and scientific collaboration Noah Smith in Noahpin...

As always, we go the extra mile to get you the juiciest of excerpts from the actual story : Although the bank’s headquarters remained in Ge...

Math with Bad Drawings: What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession? (cartoon) Tim Harford: Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st ce...

Esther Inglis-Arkell in io9 : The Romance That Led To A Legendary Science Burn : Pauli was not just hurt by the fact that his marriage had ...

Apparently, mathematicians take a dim view of the use of computers in proving theorems. This blog post from the Heidelberg Laureates Forum ...

In his WSJ opinion piece, Wilson gives a blunt answer by way of a "professional secret": "Many of the most successful scien...

[Richard Muller] basically appears to have suffered from nothing more than characteristic physicist arrogance, the belief that people in les...

Steven Blau weighs in on the matter over at Physics Today Blogs [ Update : I think the real value in Blau's piece is in the link to an...

Science of the Physical Universe 22: The Unity of Science: From the Big Bang to the Brontosaurus. Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 14: ...

Cosma Shalizi offers his take , which I have been looking forward to for quite sometime ( over a year , actually). And it is Cosma at his be...

Two interesting pieces (and both are for free access). The first is a new feature called "Connections", an essay series for explor...

I have already written about the not so happy consequences of physicists' forays into the economic realm ('econophysics'). The ...

... of the Programming Language kind : The remarkably wide range of programming languages would seem to offer something for everyone. We co...

I posted a while ago about some of the interesting responses from people when they are introduced to anthropologists. Commenters are havi...

Okay, they are not real wars. But, they are not love, either! First, we have Eszter Hargittai of Crooked Timber firing the first shot w...