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Tag: Enrico Fermi

The paradoxical virtues of primacy in science

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Primacy is a false virtue imposed by the structures of modern science – yet it is also necessary to right some wrongs.

March 28, 2022 Analysis, Science

The real story of ‘The Old Guard’

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Spoiler alert: Don’t read this post if you intend to watch The Old Guard but haven’t done so […]

July 25, 2020 Analysis, Science

To read or not a bad man’s book

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The Life of Science team uploaded the video of their webinar on July 10, about the construct of […]

July 23, 2020 Culture, Science

Review: ‘Salam – The First ****** Nobel Laureate’ (2018)

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Awards are elevated by their winners. For all of the Nobel Prizes’ flaws and shortcomings, they are redeemed […]

October 5, 2019 Culture, Science

Unseating Feynman, and Fermi

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Do physicists whitewash the legacy of Enrico Fermi the same way they do Richard Feynman? Feynman disguised his […]

October 1, 2019 Op-eds, Science

What life on Earth tells us about life ‘elsewhere’

In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi asked a question not many could forget for a long time: “Where is […]

June 10, 2014 Science
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