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Including the classic anti-quack essay "DRIVE THE PSEUDOS OUT OF THE WORKSHOP OF SCIENCE," by the late J. A. Wheeler, albeit in a nearly unreadable format.
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Princeton accentuates the positive.
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People who aren't crazy think about the odds.
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"Researchers at [NIST] have demonstrated a new device that creates nanodroplet "test tubes" for studying individual proteins under conditions that mimic the crowded confines of a living cell."
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"[NIST in collaboration with NASA] has published detailed guidelines for making essential measurements on samples of single-walled carbon nanotubes. The new guide constitutes the current "best practices" for characterizing one of the most promising an
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Light under flawless tutelage knows no limits.
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As Teresa Nielsen Hayden points out, the more you make rules that seem like a game, the more people will work to game the system.
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