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Physics and Chemistry
Interviews with physicist and chemists about their new books.
July 7, 2024
Einstein's Dreams
Einstein’s Dreams (Vintage, 1992) by Alan Lightman, set in Albert Einstein’s “miracle year” of 1905, is a novel about the cultural interconnection of…
July 5, 2024
Clock in the Sun
On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks an…
June 21, 2024
Camera Geologica
In Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke UP, 2024) Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon whic…
June 1, 2024
Light
From early myths to the latest LEDs, light has been "the magician of the cosmos." But what is light? Is it God? Truth? Particle or wave? This "rad…
May 24, 2024
Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell
Is reality more than the material? Raj Balkaran holds a fascinating interview with philosopher Bernardo Kastrup on this topic. At the vanguard of the …
April 15, 2024
Symbols and Things
The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily …
April 1, 2024
The Beauty of Falling
Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soa…
December 10, 2023
Why? The Purpose of the Universe
Does the universe have a purpose? If it does, how is this connected to the meaningfulness that we seek in our lives? In Why? The Purpose of the Univer…
October 21, 2023
American Prometheus
The inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s major motion picture, Oppenheimer, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography explores the life and times of J. R…
September 8, 2023
Fascination of Science
An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What …
August 28, 2023
The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought
Barbara M. Sattler's book The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics (Cambridge UP, 2020) examines …
July 25, 2023
Glyphosate and the Swirl
Vincanne Adams's book Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Duke UP, 2023) is part of a broader trend in anthropology that…
July 15, 2023
Working on Mars
Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning …
July 15, 2023
How the Universe Got Its Spots
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established h…
June 16, 2023
Worlds Without End
The science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitab…
June 7, 2023
Not Just for the Boys
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the sc…
May 20, 2023
Split and Splice
In Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation (University of Chicago Press, 2023), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, director emeritus at the Max Planck …
May 2, 2023
The Magick of Physics
If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be considered magic. In The Magick of Physics: U…
April 6, 2023
Seeing Truth in Physics
Stephon Alexander talks about a better way of thinking about the interconnections between music, physics, and creativity and how as someone often seen…
April 3, 2023
The Evolution of Everything
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoar…