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Issue 1

Boundaries

We put up boundaries within science — separating people, disciplines, and careers. We also put up boundaries between science and everything else. How do we create and enforce these boundaries? What separates science from art? From pseudoscience? From technology? How do we cross boundaries? How do we break them down?

What is this thing called science?

The Editors

Welcome to Method Quarterly

I Don’t Have ESP

Janny Li

The Ganzfeld experiment measures psychic ability, but it also can tell us about how science works.

The Biological Facts Committee

Eliza Cohen

The American Museum of Natural History’s tumultuous struggle to define biology in the early 20th century.

Conversations with Evelyn Fox Keller

Christina Agapakis

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, from physics to biology to philosophy of science.

Going Viral

Patrick Boyle

Porcine diarrhea, gene drives, and the news of a growing health crisis.

Photography by CALLE EKLUND

He Told Animal Stories

Thalia Field

Konrad Lorenz and analogy as a scientific method. An excerpt from Bird Lovers, Backyard.

Light and Madness

Jayinee Basu

How do boundaries shape the way we see and think?

The Cat Went Over Radioactive Mountain

Sarah Zhang

Inside Yucca Mountain, incomprehensibly long time scales clash with human ones—pairing the monumental and the mundane.

The Dirty History of Doctors’ Hands

Leah Ginnivan

What the history of handwashing in hospitals tells us about ego and the kneejerk reflex to reject evidence.

The Coyote Among the Seals

Laura Bliss

Coyotes are experts at crossing boundaries in the Southern California ecotone.

Protocol: DNA Extraction

Devin Burrill

Finding the Medusa in E. coli.

Relics of Imagined Futures

Azeen Ghorayshi

“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” – Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog

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