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Plain sailing

July 14th, 2011 · No Comments

To a certain point it had all been plain sailing, a pretty science, with pretty subdivisions, optics, acoustics, electricity and magnetism and so on.  Up [...]

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Even In Math, Language Matters

June 15th, 2011 · No Comments

At the World Science Festival’s panel on Probability and Risk, an experiment with the Monty Hall problem demonstrated how open to suggestion even the best [...]

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Practice Makes Perfect

June 7th, 2011 · No Comments

Without a doubt, the ability to communicate via written language is a skill that takes a great deal of practice.   Unfortunately many undergraduate science majors [...]

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Women in Science

March 1st, 2011 · No Comments

Today, more than half of all PhDs in the life sciences are awarded to women, compared to a measly 13 percent bestowed upon women in [...]

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