Book review: Superior, by Angela D. Saini
“The key to understanding the meaning of race is understanding power,” writes Angela D. Saini.…
Olivia Varley WinterJune 7, 2019
Evidence of uncertainty: An introduction to our April 2019 special issue
In the heyday of television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, forensic science seemed not…
Cargo-cult statistics and scientific crisis
Poor practice is catching up with science,1-3 manifesting in part in the failure of results…
Philip B. Stark and Andrea SaltelliJuly 5, 2018
Closing the communications gap
Professor Dame Anne Glover has spent her entire career generating scientific knowledge; knowledge that has,…
Brian TarranSeptember 9, 2016
From science to advice: reinventing the scientific generalist (part two)
Solly Zuckerman (pictured) was meticulous in measuring things to assemble evidence when there was none,…
Thomas KingOctober 17, 2013
From science to advice: Solly Zuckerman, bringing evidence into military strategy (part one)
The publications marking the transition to a new government chief scientific advisor in Britain give…
Thomas KingOctober 7, 2013
Bourbaki’s theorem: a hoax math lecture
A couple years ago I wrote about an experiment where researchers had hired an actor…
Mikhail SimkinOctober 1, 2013
George Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration
At New Year, I was reminded of how much heated argument can be generated when…
Andrew McCullochJanuary 21, 2013
The Nobel Prize gender gap
This week, as the six recipients of Nobel Prizes in science take the podium, some…
Stephanie KovalchikSeptember 26, 2011
PhDs couldn’t tell an actor from a renowned scientist
Forty years ago, a singularly interesting lecture was held at the University of Southern California…
Mikhail SimkinJuly 4, 2011
