Guest post, links, etc.
Happy holidays readers! Last week I meant to explain that I would be on vacation for the holidays and so blogging would be light to non-existent. Since I didn&#...
Month: December 2014
Beyond the pipeline
My friend Kenny Gibbs has a follow-up to his last post on diversity in science. From the introduction: One of the most commonly used metaphors for describing th...
Why teach biology in public school?
Prolific commenter Robert Little asks: Praj, you asked why understanding biology should even be the goal. Let’s take it a step further. Why study biology in pub...
On fundamental misunderstandings of science
To revisit this passage from Laura Helmuth’s critique of James Watson: It is a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works for him to think that his...
Post-Thanksgiving reading list
So I’m clearly slacking by aggregating links yet again. I’ll try to change that later this week by writing something substantive. But until then, he...