Good disagreement is central to progress.
Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren’t echo chambers — and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.
Not going to lie, I spent a lot of time playing with this! Put your thesis or publication name into this app to generate a piece of art based on the text.
Proponents embrace LaTeX because of the total control it offers for document layout.
Uni’s want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly support academics to do it? The Conversation explores this question off the back of some new research
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.
Poorly automated translation or software that attempts to disguise plagiarism? Read about ‘Tortured Phrases’ in journal articles.
Usually, an organism’s cells all carry the same genes. In yellow crazy ants, some cells carry only maternal and others only paternal genetic material. Chimerism can happen by accident in nature but these ants rely on chimerism to exist.
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