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Sociology

The Problem with Scientific Credit

Our algorithm said a courtesy driver should have won the Nobel Prize.

Geology Makes You Time-Literate

A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness.

September 12, 2018

The Euclidean Metrics of Trump’s Twitter Account

How online personalities are quantified and compared.

August 28, 2018

Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me

Why Errol Morris is still outraged by the famous philosopher of science.

August 22, 2018

Eating for Peace

How cuisine bridges cultures.

July 2, 2018

What a Russian Smile Means

How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different.

June 19, 2018

Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?

John Carreyrou talks to Nautilus about the lessons of a $1 billion fraud.

May 29, 2018

How My Nobel Dream Bit the Dust

My team thought we’d proved cosmological inflation. We were wrong.

April 13, 2018

Why Women Choose Differently at Work

Psychologist Susan Pinker on the role of choice in gender differences in the workplace.

February 28, 2018

Your City Has a Gender and It’s Male

Why city designers are increasingly thinking about the female perspective.

January 5, 2018

Would Twitter Ruin Bee Democracy?

Simple-majority democracy is used by many animals. But they don’t have social media.

December 14, 2017

Why Garbage Science Gets Published

Predatory journals keep the pseudoscience flowing.