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  • How to be a Competent Outsider

    By on May 29, 2013

    The scientific pipeline dominates educational discourse today, but it is those outside the pipeline who would benefit most from...

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  • Veritasium

    By on May 14, 2013

    Veritasium is a science video blog featuring experiments, expert interviews, cool demos, and discussions with the public about everything...

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  • Timelapse: Landset Satellite Images

    By on May 9, 2013

    Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one...

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  • David Foster Wallace – “This is Water”

    By on May 9, 2013

    Metanexus is happy to plug the late David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Commencement Speech at Kenyon College in this season...

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  • Genís Carreras’ Philographics

    By on May 8, 2013

    Try to explain any philosophical “ism” to your friend or colleague. Unless you’re both scholars, you probably can’t do...

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  • Genís Carreras’ Philographics

    By on May 8, 2013

    Try to explain any philosophical “ism” to your friend or colleague. Unless you’re both scholars, you probably can’t do...

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  • Mathematics and the Game of Thrones

    By on April 30, 2013

    In this game of thrones, mathematics certainly makes a stronger claim today to royalty than does theology or philosophy....

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  • The Human Project

    By on April 24, 2013

    The Human Project is an organization founded by Erika Ilves and Anna Stillwell, which aims to advance the future...

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  • Three Years of SDO Images

    By on April 23, 2013

    SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images...

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  • Welcome to the Anthropocene

    By on April 18, 2013

    Scientific concepts like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and planetary stewardship have heralded a profound shift in perception of our...

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