Gardening in space
Robert P Crease on the success story of a courgette in space
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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. He has written, translated or edited more than a dozen books on the history and philosophy of science and technology, and is the author of the Physics World Discovery ebook Philosophy of Physics and the IOP ebook Philosophy of Physics: a New Introduction. He is past chair of the Forum for History of Physics of the American Physical Society. He is co-editor-in-chief of Physics in Perspective, and since 2000 he has written a column, Critical Point, on the historical, social and philosophical dimensions of science for Physics World. His latest book (with Peter D Bond) is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2022 MIT Press).
Robert P Crease on the success story of a courgette in space
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Robert P Crease reckons he knows why science has lost its authority among politicians
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Robert P Crease shows just how hard it can be to assign credit for a scientific discovery
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Robert P Crease finds that a new book on string theory offers progress for the philosophy of science
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Robert P Crease wonders whether scientists shouldn't rule the world after all
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Ray Monk’s landmark biography of “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, reviewed by Robert P Crease
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Robert P Crease wonders why scientific input to important policy issues is so often ignored when it's actually critical
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