Trop Picks: Orientalist Science
The line between scientific and unscientific thinking is finer than we think.
The Jungle
Grobalization
A Primer for Scientists: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Is it even possible to spread a set of norms widely, but still maintain your status as the arbiter of those norms?
Grobalization
Lessons from an Earlier Global Age
The last global age was the Golden Age of Islam. So why aren’t our intellectuals scouring it for clues about what lies ahead for us?
The Jungle
Stick-it-to-the-Man Rice
Here in Banaue, deep in the heart of the Cordilleras mountain range in the Philippines, civilization seems very far away, and it is intentionally…
Immaterial Culture
The Scientific Indian
In the year 1887, Srinivas Ramanujan was born in the temple town of Kumbakonam, the last redoubt of orthodox Brahminism against the onslaught of…
Material Culture
Can Traditional Medicine become Biomedical Science?
How does a traditional healing system transform itself into a scientific one? It is a worthwhile endeavor, assuming of course, that you don’t believe…
Immaterial Culture
An Islamic Environmentalism
“A group of men set out to collect the fruits of a garden, but before doing so, they failed to acknowledge that their labors…
Immaterial Culture
Must English Be the Language of Science?
If we want to spread secular and scientific thought, we need better and more translations of scientific ideas into the vernacular.
Material Culture
I Wish I Could Fight Disease in the Most Unscientific Way Possible
Seriously, am I the only one who sometimes feels like science has made everything more boring?