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CPH:SCIENCE opens the floor to conversations on the role of science docs with key players.

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12 posts published by Christina Macpherson on November 14, 2023

Most of the exposure people received came in the form of internal exposures from ingesting radioactivity, not from exter­nal, ambient gamma rays in the environment. Medical examinations of people in contaminated regions showed a significant increase in the general number of chromosomal mutations in newborns, and the frequency of birth defects in southern Belarus was…

Lorraine Daston Why is there no epistemology of the humanities that is even remotely comparable to the epistemology of the sciences? Why is it that humanists can gesture to only a handful of seminal works by philosophers (Wilhelm Dilthey on understanding in the humanities versus explanation in the sciences; Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur on…

Call for applications 2023: graduate programs in Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia.

AI-based software company’s billionaire founder is happiest being a nerd. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The World Science Festival Announces Science in September

Boston MA (SPX) Aug 11, 2023 - Agroup of international researchers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA) achieved the once-unimaginable four years ago: using a groundbreaking telescope to capture an i

The Event Horizon Explorer would build on the work of the Event Horizon Telescope, which famously visualized a black hole in 2019.