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Sunday Science: How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars

Myrna Perez Convergence
In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists

Sunday Science: Signs of Science

Dimitri Selibas Science
CyberTracker, software developed in collaboration with Indigenous trackers, is enabling almost anyone to collect complex biodiversity data

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Taking a Hammer to It

Jeremy Hsu New Scientist
An eye-opening read traces today’s collective rage against big tech back to the Luddite uprising the industrial revolution.
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