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One question, worked all the way through: video, essay, sources, simulation, and the strongest case against our own conclusion. The subjects move across fields; the questions underneath them do not.
Why do most findings shrink when someone repeats them?
The effect that held at p<0.05 comes back half the size, or not at all. Psychology found it first; oncology, ecology and economics all found it after.
Can we model a living cell?
Whole-cell simulation has gone from fantasy to funded programme. What a model of something alive would have to get right, and what it is allowed to leave out.
Is the universe computable?
If the world runs on rules, something should be able to run them. Gödel, chaos and thermodynamics all disagree about how far that goes.
Can a machine form a hypothesis?
Systems now propose candidate explanations. Whether that is discovery or very good autocomplete depends on what you think a hypothesis is.
Who pays for science, and what does that buy?
Funding shapes which questions get asked. Follow the money through three national systems and one budget game.
What does peer review actually catch?
A system everyone leans on and few defend. What it filters, what it misses, and what has been tried instead.
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