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Oct 3, 2011

Download the Physics World supplement looking at the challenges of building and designing next-generation "big-science" facilities

In depth: Culture, history & society

Cooking up a storm

Peter Barham reviews Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet

Astronomical sense and nonsense

Margaret Harris reviews Hindsight and Popular Astronomy by Alan B Whiting

Between the lines

Books on fundamental constants and the "science of wonder", plus a comic-book guide to the universe, reviewed by Matin Durrani and Margaret Harris

Web life

NerdyDayTrips is full of suggestions for science-oriented tourists

The brave new-media world

Chad Orzel says physicists have to get used to doing science in the open

For Newton, a right Hooke

There was much more to Robert Hooke than Hooke's law, so why don't we know about it? Jon Cartwright discovers how a genius was betrayed

Mikhail who?

Robert P Crease marks the tercentenary of Russia's scientific father

One toise at a time

Terry Quinn reviews Measure of the Earth: the Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World by Larrie D Ferreiro

Web life

A picture is worth a thousand words: Ethan Siegel's Starts With a Bang

Opportunities lost

Paul Mueller reviews The Abacus and the Cross: the Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown

How big is your footprint?

Phil Marshall says the onus is on physicists to reduce their own carbon footprint

Evaluations evaluated

Robert P Crease reports on your suggestions for evaluating PhD candidates

Big science in a big world

James Poskett explores how Ernest Rutherford, who 100 years ago revealed his proposal of the atom's structure, also helped to pioneer modern international science

Open doors for physics graduates

Six former physics students reveal what they did after leaving college

The geek shall inherit the Earth

Srinath Perur reviews Geek Nation by Angela Saini