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Subtle Aspects of, "What is Science" –
Not
agreed to by many practicing scientists; good debate topics:
David Gelertner
(Yale) "Women are…less prone to the intense, cutthroat aggressiveness
which usually marks the successful research scientist"
Riccardo Giaconni, "Make yourself the master of your subfield,
and make it clear that it is yours alone."
Meg Urry, "In other words, pee
around the boundaries."
The 1992 and
2002 "Women in Astronomy" meetings. "What leads to excellent
science?" Cooperation
or competition?
The trouble with "It is
Trivial" and "Theories of Everything" – how they turn people off
to science.
Hubert Reeves,
"Malicorne - Earthly reflections of an
astrophysicist." – good book by “the
French Carl Sagan,” delightful and much more modest than the “Theories of
Everything” people.
The STATUS of women in astronomy:
http://www.aas.org/~cswa/pubs.html,
and click "STATUS"
"Talking About Leaving" - Why
Undergraduates Leave the Sciences"
Seymour & Hewitt. 600 hours
of interviews and thoughtful analysis give the answers.
There is something fascinating about
science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling
investment of fact."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)