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Quanta’s Thomas Lin Trusts the Public Can Handle Complex Ideas
The founding editor built a math and science magazine that high schoolers and Nobel laureates alike read. Now, he’s turned to books.
Before the Record: Proofs as Ritual
In publication, as in teaching, academic life is full of threshold moments.
What One Year of ‘The Public Scholar’ Taught Me
A year of conversations with editors, agents and scholars taught me that breaking through takes practical know-how and remembering how to teach.
The Fight for Fair Funding at One Historically Black Land-Grant University
A new book from the former president of Tennessee State University reveals her battle to regain $544 million in documented underfunding.
Keep Strunk & White in the Bathroom and Other Ways to Obsess Over Writing Well
A working writer describes rituals for chasing the tension and surprise that make stories worth reading.
Do You Have to Be Fancy to Get Published in ‘Science’?
No, not necessarily. But scientists who work for a prestigious university are three times more likely than their peers who don’t to get published in the top-tier journal, according to a new independent analysis of Science’s manuscript data.