I have observed some worrisome trends that have motivated me to speak out on the virtues of science based thinking, and to write a textbook on The Science of Diversity. Oxford Dictionaries selected ...

Growing up near the World Bank’s agricultural development project in Anyigba (present day Kogi State, Nigeria), Mark Akubo and his friends would visit the aerodrome to watch light planes take off and ...

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A physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist walk into a classroom. Although it sounds like a premise for a joke, this was actually the origin of a unique collaboration between Nobel Prize–winning ...

For generations, science was one of the few things most people agreed on. No matter their education, political beliefs, or religion, most people trusted scientists, the scientific process, and the ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Charlie Heck, multimedia news editor at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), contributed ...

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I admit that “magical thinking” is not a great term for what I was writing about in The 2012 Election and the Super-Conscious Mind. In that post, I wrote that many people saw the contribution of ...

At Northwestern Engineering, we do more than educate great engineers. We empower our students to become whole-brain engineers. This means integrating the elements of left-brain thinking — analysis, ...

Who knew that including a dog in a newspaper story makes the story 2.2 times more interesting? Or that slime mold can compose music? Marc Abrahams knew, and the impresario of the improbable has turned ...