Astronomers Have Warned against Colonial Practices in the Space Industry
The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military and economic positions beyond the Earth. Public and private entities...
How Sports Shaped Glacier Science
...critic John Ruskin. Their debate cut to the heart of scientific philosophy. Forbes believed that “science depended upon observations distilled into quantitative laws,” writes Hevly, while Hopkins believed that the...
Economics in Ancient Greece
...Leshem writes, was to channel more resources toward allowing male, land-owning citizens to engage in “the spiritual realm of philosophy” and the “heroic realm of politics.” Citizens were encouraged to...
9 Ways to Create an “Intellectually Humble” Classroom
...learning from them in kind. 4. Incorporate more disciplinary perspectives in our classrooms. I once took a bioethics course taught by a professor of philosophy who anchored it only in...
Gay Radicalism, Made in Kentucky
...ideas. They moved to New York, sharing an apartment with lesbian civil rights leaders Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin. There, Clarke embraced yoga, Buddhist philosophy, vegetarianism, and LSD. He jokingly...
Rosalind Franklin’s Methods of Discovery
...evidence of sexism in the history of science, writes Michelle G. Gibbons in Philosophy of Science. But she argues that Franklin’s story has additional significance—it forces us to reevaluate our...
Why Architects Need Philosophy to Guide the AI Design Revolution
...the sciences and philosophy. Looking to the future, tomorrow’s architects will need to be equipped with transdisciplinary tools such as Neuro-Techno-Philosophy, a framework I have introduced to understand the AI-neuroscience-philosophy...
A Utopia—for Some—in India
...in spiritualism and non-western religions and ended up traveling to India with her husband, an administrator for France’s colonial government. They met Aurobindo in 1914, studied philosophy and religion together,...
Rickshaw Men, Optical Computing, and Telegraph Flirting
...to the telegraph. Using Confucianism Against China (Aeon) by Shaun O’Dwyer In the early twentieth century, many Japanese elites were steeped in the Chinese philosophy of Confucianism. Its ideas became...