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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens Science’s irrational originsItai Yanai, Martin J. Lercher Science 2021 … More

We were very excited that our piece ‘A hypothesis is a liability’ – on the hidden cost to having a hypothesis … More

Daniel Dennett is one of the most inspiring thinkers you will find. In this fascinating correspondence with Alex Rosenberg on … More

by Itai Yanai When we meet each other, we ask ‘what do you do?’ I’m a landscape architect, you might … More

  Interdisciplinary creativity is a two-way street. You may realize that a concept or a methodology, or maybe even just … More

For most of us, substantial knowledge about a second field can only be acquired at the cost of reduced expertise … More

The single greatest misunderstanding about science by the public is that scientists solve problems; in reality scientists are primarily concerned … More

In his autobiography – The Statue Within – François Jacob distinguished between ‘day science’ and ‘night science’.    

The popping-out model of day science and night science. Day thinking proceeds in logical steps, and thus only ideas that … More