The hullabaloo surrounding the publication of my most recent book, The Language Myth, in September 2014, has taken even me by surprise. The book is a rebuttal of an earlier, very famous book, The ...

Before the revolution triggered by Nicolaus Copernicus, a 16th-century cleric, the Earth was the unmoving centre of the cosmos. Afterwards, it was one of a family of planets swinging through space.

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is homoarchy, which permits one (and only one) ...

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) indicates a paradigm shift in military research and application, echoing the revolutionary scientific framework presented by Thomas Kuhn in his ...

What began as a one-room basement office in 1869 grew into one of the world's most powerful investment banks. Here's how it happened.

Jeff Goldsmith reviews “Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong and What It Means for Our Health” by Marty Makary, Trump’s new FDA commissioner, which explores how the politics of science can slow ...