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Waiving Patents during Public Health Emergencies: Keeping Things in Perspective
Arguing whether intellectual property rights should be protected during a crisis is nothing new.


Apr 8, 20216 min read
Of Zebra Stripes and Other Questions: Science and Nature at Work (II)
We are closer than ever to answering why zebras have stripes, or are we? The most recent research.


Apr 8, 20216 min read
Of Zebra Stripes and Other Questions: Science and Nature at Work (I)
We are closer than ever to answering why zebras have stripes, or are we?


Mar 15, 20215 min read
Alan Turing and How the Brain Uses Statistics to Make Decisions
When facing simple, unconscious decisions, our brains apply the same statistical method Alan Turing used to break the Enigma code.


Mar 8, 20219 min read
Science Wars and Purity: A Review of Steven Shapin's Never Pure
Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society...


Feb 23, 20216 min read
Moral Cholera: Case Study of the Psychological Side of Epidemics
During times of epidemics, when everyone seems to be getting the same disease, it's easy to imagine we are feeling the symptoms.


Feb 5, 20214 min read
The Unexpected Story of ISEE-3: Adventures of a Versatile Spacecraft
From studying solar winds and cosmic rays to hunting comets, the ISEE-3/ICE is a testimony to making things up as we go.