Author: Sarah Chaffee
Wikipedia and “Astroturf”
On some subjects, the astroturf mob is particularly committed to a biased agenda.
“The Ultimate Bootstrap”
Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter.
Will Universities Embrace Freedom, or Censor Ideas?
A teacher’s assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada was chastised after she showed a video of two professors from the University of Toronto debating.
Rainy Holiday Weekend? Don’t Let It Get You Down — Appreciate the Wonder of Water
How is water the “universal solvent”? What is viscosity? How does water keep temperatures stable?
Science on the Rocks
Perhaps confidence in science can, at times, undermine science itself. How much real history has evolutionary storytelling obscured?