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Now that's how you teach kids about science
Now that's how you teach kids about science

In which Max gushes about his favorite picture book on dinosaur paleontology, The Iguanodon’s Horn

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From the Archive: Rugged Individualism in the Cretaceous
From the Archive: Rugged Individualism in the Cretaceous

Once more to the archive: in which Kelle Dhein analyzes George Simpson’s sci-fi novella, The Dechronization of Sam Magruder

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From the Archive: “Truth also has its Paleontology,” or When Pragmatism Met Uniformitarianism
From the Archive: “Truth also has its Paleontology,” or When Pragmatism Met Uniformitarianism

In which we dip into the archive one more time. Our question: what does “paleontology” have to do with the pragmatist theory of truth?

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From the Archive: Skeletons, Specimens, Synoptic Series, Similarity, and Difference
From the Archive: Skeletons, Specimens, Synoptic Series, Similarity, and Difference

In which we dip into the archive again, and produce a wonderfully interesting piece from Joyce Havstad about “synoptic series” (vintage 2019)

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From the Archive: The Once and Future Earth
From the Archive: The Once and Future Earth

In which we dip into the Extinct archive and pull out an essay on some attempts to use Mars to better understand the past (and future!) of the Earth

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Toulmania '53: Remembering the Practice-Turn that Didn't Happen
Toulmania '53: Remembering the Practice-Turn that Didn't Happen

In which Max looks back at a road not taken in 20th century philosophy of science: Stephen Toulmin’s Wittgenstein-influenced “practice turn”

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