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A review of “The Knowledge Machine”
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens Science’s irrational originsItai Yanai, Martin J. Lercher Science 2021…
A hypothesis is a liability
We were very excited that our piece ‘A hypothesis is a liability’ – on the hidden cost to having a hypothesis…
The two languages of science
Daniel Dennett is one of the most inspiring thinkers you will find. In this fascinating correspondence with Alex Rosenberg on…
The creativity that comes from being a ‘Renaissance person’
by Itai Yanai When we meet each other, we ask ‘what do you do?’ I’m a landscape architect, you might…
The idea import/export business
Interdisciplinary creativity is a two-way street. You may realize that a concept or a methodology, or maybe even just…
Expert’s dilemma
For most of us, substantial knowledge about a second field can only be acquired at the cost of reduced expertise…
What is the question?
The single greatest misunderstanding about science by the public is that scientists solve problems; in reality scientists are primarily concerned…
François Jacob
In his autobiography – The Statue Within – François Jacob distinguished between ‘day science’ and ‘night science’.
Popping in and out of night science
The popping-out model of day science and night science. Day thinking proceeds in logical steps, and thus only ideas that…