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Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck
Nature’s laws do not change very much. So long as the store of human knowledge continues to expand, as it has since Gutenberg’s printing press, we will slowly come to a better understanding of nature’s signals, if never all its secrets. And yet if science and technology are the heroes of this book, there is the risk in the age of Big Data about bec
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How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation - Alexey Guzey
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The point about the laboriousness of the process – possibly worth it if it works, certainly not if it doesn’t – reminds one of the physicist Leo Szilard’s visionary satire, ‘The Mark Gable Foundation’, published in 1961. The story described the creation of an endowed not-for-profit foundation for the specific purpose of slowing the pace of scientif
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