by Itai Yanai When we meet each other, we ask ‘what do you do?’ I’m a landscape architect, you might … More
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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 … More
Expert’s dilemma
For most of us, substantial knowledge about a second field can only be acquired at the cost of reduced expertise … More
What is the question?
Our latest installment on Night Science is out in Genome Biology! https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-019-1902-1 The single greatest misunderstanding about science by the … More
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 … More