What puzzle are you in? A mini-workshop on ‘Science as a meta-puzzle’ After many in-person ‘Night Science’ workshops, we’re now…
Night Science Workshop in Amsterdam University, 9/8/2022
The 2022 Night Science Workshop on the Art of Scientific Discovery August 9th 2022 Amsterdam– hosted by AIMMS Where do…
A review of “A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth”
Iterations of evolution SCIENCE • 11 Nov 2021 • Vol 374, Issue 6569 • p. 828 • DOI: 10.1126/science.abm0121 ITAI…
Podcast!
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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…