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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

Peter B. Medawar, 1967 · Methuen & Co.

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, 1997 · Harvard University Press

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

Jeffrey S. Flier, 2017 · Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 60, No. 4

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…