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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Hidden Costs of Academic Perfectionism

This project demonstrates how the rigorous pursuit of scientific knowledge can lead to excessive costs in time, finances, and human effort, raising questions about the efficiency of such endeavors.
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fromNature
2 weeks ago

Make science more collegial: why the time for 'adversarial collaboration' has come

Adversarial collaborations can foster scientific advancement if all parties accept the potential for their theories to be incorrect.
fromAeon
1 month ago

Why the hunt for reality is an impossible burden for physics | Aeon Essays

Today, however, the reality physicists work to uncover appears increasingly removed from the one they inhabit. Despite its experimental successes, physics has repeatedly failed to live up to the expectation of delivering a deeper, 'final' physics.
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fromBig Think
2 months ago

Asteroid anxiety: Astronomy's 300-year quest to predict cosmic collisions

NASA revised the asteroid 2024 YR4's impact chances from 3.1% to 0.004%, with a 1.7% chance of hitting the Moon.
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