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Introducing Beaker, inspired by our panel at AAAS a couple of months ago. Go take a look.

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Everything is connected to everything else. Sometimes, the connections are non-trivial. Often they are fundamental, sometimes exploitable, and now and then very potent sources of debate and discussion. I've come to think that a measure of sanity is the degree to which one limits a sense of…
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Two weeks ago, I spent my spring break at the Exploratorium, as a visiting Osher Fellow. One of the projects I consulted on was the Exploratorium's "evidence" project, an exciting initiative that will provide Web and floor content introducing the public to how science works as a process and how…
The latest edition of The Giants' Shoulders (the monthly history of science carnival) was posted over at Greg Laden's blog a couple of days ago. If you haven't seen it yet, you should go take a look.