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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN is well known for being one of the largest international collaborations to look for fundamental particles. Other big collaborations include the International Space Station, the Human Genome Project, the…

I've read this long transcript of a speech given by Richard Hamming: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html It was an amazingly good speech in my view, and extremely interesting. So my question is: Do you know of more articles…

Epistemology and philosophy of science reference intellectual, sagacious, scholarly vanguards such as Michael Servetus (who correctly explicated pulmonary circulation) and Dr Ignaz Semmelweis (who correctly advocated for handwashing) wrongfully…