Research, False-Positive Psychology

This influential paper is a must-read for anyone who cares about making science more reliable. It exposes how researchers can easily manipulate data collection and analysis to make results look significant when they might not be. The authors argue that this flexibility leads to misleading conclusions and call for more transparency in research methods. 

Mathematics, Mystery, and the Universe

Astrophysicist Mario Livio speaks to the heart of mathematics in this episode of On Being.

Together with Krista Tippett, he discusses the idea that mathematics has a reality and truth about it that may even be greater than the reality and truth of human perception or the physical world that it is measuring or describing and the closest thing science has to eternal truths.