Science
An annotated collection of 3 books & papers on science, spanning 1967 to 2017. Featuring works by Peter B. Medawar, Freeman Dyson, Jeffrey S. Flier — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Art of the Soluble
Medawar, a Nobel-winning biologist, argues that good science is not about tackling the hardest problems but about choosing the ones that can actually be solved with the tools available — the art is in the picking. The bo…
Imagined Worlds
Freeman Dyson — physicist, polymath, long-time member of the Institute for Advanced Study — reflects on how science and technology shape the future, and how science fiction often illuminates that future more honestly tha…
The Problem of Irreproducible Bioscience Research
Flier, a former dean of Harvard Medical School, writes about the reproducibility crisis in biomedical research from inside the discipline. The piece is clear-eyed about the structural causes — career incentives, publicat…