Ronald Numbers

Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He recently served as editor of Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard University Press). 

Articles by Ronald Numbers

• The Value of an Abstract Life

  Posted on 05/06/10

  If you find yourself the subject of a grisly thought experiment, anonymity is your best defense.

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• Even Computers Need a Sabbath

  Posted on 04/28/10

  Will consumerism and restraint always be at odds?

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• Feeling Right

  Posted on 04/23/10

  Emotion trumps logic. And it's your brain's fault.

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• Leveraging Selfishness

  Posted on 04/21/10

  The organizing power of the Web allows individual selfish actions to add up to selfless wholes.

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• Mind & Matter

  Posted on 09/01/09

  With the rise of modern science, the pursuit of wisdom gave way to the acquisition of useful truths.

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• Mind & Matter

  Posted on 09/01/09

  With the rise of modern science, the pursuit of wisdom gave way to the acquisition of useful truths.

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