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The study of how knowledge is produced, validated, and maintained.
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For 130 years the kilogram was a lump of platinum in a French vault. The story everyone tells is that it was losing weight. The precise version is ...
For four years the press has reported GLP-1 drugs reducing one behavior after another: drinking, smoking, gambling, compulsive shopping, and now vi...
John Goodenough was told at 24 that he was already too old for physics. He invented the lithium-ion cathode at 57, won the Nobel at 97, and never e...
In 2009 a Nature paper found that fertility stops falling and rebounds once a country gets rich enough. It was cited hundreds of times and reshaped...