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fromNature
4 days ago

Eight common errors I see in PhD applications and interviews, and how to avoid them

PhD applicants commonly fail to articulate research direction and scientific thinking in personal statements, focusing instead on emotional motivation without demonstrating how they approach problems and reason through uncertainty.
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fromOpen Culture
10 months ago

Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline of Scientific Thinking in America: Watch His Final Interview (1996)

Carl Sagan highlighted the critical gap in public understanding of science and warned of the dangers this poses to democracy.
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