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Is Discovery Inevitable or Serendipitous?

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By Telmo Pievani, Omar W. Nasim, Maya Judd, David Nye
| The MIT Press
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. We are in the early 1900s, and a French chemist (also an artist and decorator), Edouard Benedictus, has a banal accident in the laboratory: He drops a flask. Only this time, it doesn’t shatter. The pieces of glass remain stuck together, like a mosaic.
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The Nuclear Fallout Maps That Revealed a Contaminated Planet

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By David Nye, Carmel Raz, Peter Pesic, Maya Judd
| The MIT Press
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Today, pollutants of anthropogenic origin, starting with microplastics, are everywhere on our planet, deposited in the ice of the polar regions, dispersed in the upper atmosphere, and transported to the ocean depths. Scientific awareness of the global distribution of these pollutants is not new; our knowledge of the contamination of the world developed considerably throughout the 19th century and has continued to expand.
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How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda

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By Peter Galison, Robert E. Proctor, Omar W. Nasim, Maya Judd
| mit.edu
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer to the study of ignorance, and much of the ignorance studied in this new area is produced by science.
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The Most Important Scientific Problems Have Yet to Be Solved

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By Telmo Pievani, Adolfo Plasencia, Omar W. Nasim, Maya Judd
| The MIT Press
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Here is a false concept often heard from the lips of the newly graduated: “Everything of major importance in the various areas of science has already been clarified. What difference does it make if I add some minor detail or gather up what is left in some field where more diligent observers have already collected the abundant, ripe grain.
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