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Last year, my first in medical school at Columbia University, I used a bone saw to slice through the top half of a cadaver's skull, revealing a gray brain lined with purple blood vessels. This was Clinical Gross Anatomy, the first-year course that has fascinated or devastated (or both) every medical student. You never forget the day you open the skull.
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It's worth wondering, though, how a person or machine devoid of experience could reflect on experience it doesn’t have.
Let's start all over again about face masks. The noise about them is a Judas Priest blare. Can we turn down the volume for a moment?
The argument that we have the power to deal with the dangers of social media on our own can come across as cruelly individualistic tech-apologia.
You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes.
An algorithm makes highly precise predictions about who will win the Nobel Prize but disagrees with the committee on the 2008 prize winner.
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
Nature seems to have a regular penchant for mocking scientists’ hopes and expectations.
The pipeline of women pursuing mathematics and physics is still dreadfully leaky.
Maybe Newtonian physics doesn’t need dark matter to work.
Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.
What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin?
Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics.
The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question.
What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped, by Bob Goldstein
The inconvenient truth is that scientists can achieve fame and advance their careers through accomplishments that do not prioritize the quality of their work.
