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Byrne Hobart • The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack
Science may be the pursuit of truth, but scientific language is adept at dressing up insidious ideologies as fundamental truths.
Elan Ullendorff • A brief history of creativity (and power)
Science is a people-driven activity like all human endeavor, and just as subject to fashion and whim.
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
the best content on the internet is created by people who have turned research into their leisure activity.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
for greater scientific understanding (23andMe) or in propagating user-submitted data to motivate behavior change in others (traineo).
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
Science is not a neutral force. A scientist’s conclusions are profoundly effect-influenced by the methods that she used, which are influenced by the questions that she thought to ask, which are influenced by her own beliefs and values, which are influenced by her senses, by her culture, by her background.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
On beauty in science: “He’s a very intuitive person,” says Niemi. “He sees the equations, but he sees beyond the equation. He thinks immediately, does this make sense in a wider context? … He smells the equation, if it smells good or not. Or if it has the beauty.”