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Ross Pomeroy
Editor, RealClearScience
Steven Ross Pomeroy is the editor of RealClearScience. As a writer, Ross believes that his greatest assets are his insatiable curiosity and his ceaseless love for learning. Follow him on Twitter @SteRoPo.
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One alchemist's search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.
"Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions."
Confronting your "absolute stupidity" is a sign you're on course to learning something new and wonderful.
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
A survey of more than 6,000 of the world's richest, most influential people shows that 9% of them attended Harvard University.
And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
"Personhood" credentials could cleanse the internet of bots — but are the costs worth it?