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  1. Five problems in physics without the definite article

    In a 2006 book that garnered much press for its silly attacks on string theory, author and physicist Lee Smolin provides a list of “The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics.” There are many offensive things about this list, starting with the use of the definite article in the title, which implies that people not […]

    By Paul Fendley

  2. Intel ISEF Discussion Panel

    Nobelists to students: Being wrong may be just right.

    By Science News

  3. Professional Science Master’s is 21st century MBA

    One hundred years ago (in 1908), a group of higher educators launched a new professional master’s degree called the MBA. Their aim: to meet the anticipated needs of 20th century business, which would be characterized, they thought, not by product specialty but by bigness.