Sapere Aude
Sapere Aude—dare to know—the world holds its answers; we need only be brave enough to ask. I’m an ecologist exploring ideas at the intersection of science, ethics, and culture.
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He Taught Me About Love Three Years Before the World Chose to Hate Him (opens the original)
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Dr. Jason Arday—once touted as one of the world’s leading sociologists, the youngest Black professor at Cambridge, then plagued with controversy over plagiarism and embellishment—passed away last week, leaving a hailstorm of controversy in its wake. Some terrible, hateful vitriol has been spewed; some heartfelt condolences and kind words too. Serious conversations will be had about this within the chambers of academia, which is all good and necessary.But with all of that going on, there is a per
Sapere Aude is Looking for Authors (opens the original)
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Dear Sapere Aude readers,When I started this publication, it was with the intention of making science and academia more accessible and personable. There’s no question we need more scientific communicators, along with more people who are scientifically literate. In scientific circles, this idea gets discussed often—but in my opinion, it’s rarely acted on.The causes of the divide between the scientific community and the general public are complex. But I see two key areas of focus that could help b
America the Beautiful (opens the original)
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Two hundred and fifty years ago today, a group of colonists signed their names to an idea: that their land belonged to the people, not to kings. A century later, that idea found its strangest and most beautiful expression in a valley of geysers and wolves in Wyoming, when the United States did something no nation had done before—it set aside a piece of its most spectacular land and declared that it belonged to everyone, forever. The great American Western author, Wallace Stegner, called it Ameri
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