If I ask you where and how scientists work, you probably conjure an image like this: Labs are the popular image of science and rightfully so; experimental tests are how science distinguishes its efforts at truth and knowledge from philosophy, literature, and religion. Yet fewer and fewer scientists actually spend the majority of their time [...]
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A journalist, social entrepreneur, and friend of mine, Daniel Bachhuber, recently asked me for a list of good blogs by scientists. I began to reply via email, but realized that a question like this is perfectly suited for response via more public channels for two reasons: (1) A crowd-sourced answer is better than mine alone. [...]
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From the mouth of the professor to the working memory of students to notebooks not to be read again; this is the path of information in Western education. Closing the Notebooks… I had the great pleasure to listen to a fascinating lecture by a Sanskrit scholar on the shruti technique used by their monks to [...]
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