It is no doubt a good thing that we hear of scientific fraud, academic plagiarism and medical malpractice in the name of research, but we would do well to remember that these are just sophisticated names for the eternal crimes of theft and assault. Can we really hope for better science if we can’t hope for better people?
Here are two portraits of Charles Darwin. The one on the left is a painting by John Collier made in 1883 as a copy of an original 1881 portrait. Collier is reported to have said of the copy that “as a likeness it is an improvement on the original”[*]. The image on the right is…
Maja Klevanski’s drawings give us cause to reflect on why we tend to see animals and faces even when there aren’t any there.
...nature is not a book 