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Reviews
The science of Prometheus
Oct 25, 2012 5 comments
A collection of essays by the cosmopolitan chemist Roald Hoffmann, reviewed by Seymour Mauskopf
Between the lines
Oct 18, 2012
Books about sand, paradoxes in physics and an ill-fated polar expedition, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Hans Bethe's early life
Oct 18, 2012 3 comments
Jeremy Bernstein reviews Nuclear Forces: the Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe
Between the lines
Sep 20, 2012
Books about innovation, curiosity and scientific creativity, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Science in a dictatorship
Sep 20, 2012 6 comments
Gordon Fraser reviews The German Physical Society in the Third Reich
Crackpots and consequences
Sep 6, 2012 14 comments
Margaret Wertheim's account of "outsider physicists" and their theories, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Reflections on time
Aug 23, 2012 1 comment
Fred Swist reviews Infinite Instances, Olga Ast's science–art collaboration on the meaning of time
A Cold War puzzle persists
Aug 23, 2012
Istvan Hargittai reviews Simone Turchetti's The Pontecorvo Affair
ESP and LSD on the CIA's dime
Aug 2, 2012 1 comment
Andrew Whitaker reviews David Kaiser's How the Hippies Saved Physics
Between the lines
Jul 26, 2012
Books about the physics of summer and winter sports, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Keeping the lights on after 2100
Jul 19, 2012 2 comments
Paul Michael Grant reviews Robert Laughlin's Powering the Future
