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In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry

As a Former Cop, I Have to Ask: What the Hell Is ICE Doing?

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Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

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Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR (The Foundation for “Science and AI Research”)

How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize

The poorly understood science of sensation. Music can make chocolate taste bitter; rice pudding can make you cry 

Yes, Science Has a Political Bias Problem. Here’s One Way to Fix It.

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird

Creativity in Science – Ernest Nagel (1968)

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“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio