One night in the fall of 1987, a college freshman ate half of a microdot of acid on his way to a party. The tingling euphoria, splendid visuals, and sudden bursts of insight mostly wore off by the time he retired to his dorm. But the following morning, some effects still remained.
The rise of the pixel in cinema may feel like a recent development, but this year actually marks its fortieth anniversary. It began in 1973, with the release of a low-budget science-fiction film, Michael Crichton’s “Westworld.”
Seriously, how are you not going to click on this?
Peer review is a central tenet of modern academic science, and, according to critics, the High Quality Research Act threatens to supersede it with politics.
Do disease definitions come from science or say-so?
It has been startling to see leading scientists employ science itself in arguments for believing in a kind of supernatural.
The virus’ relatively sudden appearance in April, usually considered the end of flu season, is eerily reminiscent of 2009’s H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic, which eventually infected sixty million people and killed more than twelve thousand. Is the world looking at a repeat pandemic?
I have no statistical evidence to support this thesis, but, believe me, it’s true: a disproportionate number of American men who are now between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-eight will forever love Winnie Cooper.
The question of how to name exoplanets has become a surprising fraught, with conflicts between an organization of professional astronomers and a new private company whose stated purpose is raising money for scientific research.
When we log on to Facebook, it asks, “What’s on your mind?” It asks that of those planning to plant bombs and those planning breakfast.
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