Creating Gyrangle
Robert P Crease is enthralled by an exotic structure made of 490 hollowed-out triangles
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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 is enthralled by an exotic structure made of 490 hollowed-out triangles
Read article: Creating Gyrangle
Robert P Crease looks at strange attempts to use the Great Pyramid of Giza as a measurement standard
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Robert P Crease witnesses one of the last inspections of the official SI kilogram standard
Read article: Au revoir, kilogram
Robert P Crease confronts the public's fears over nuclear power
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Robert P Crease tests two firms' 3D body-scanning devices
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Robert P Crease discusses your responses to his "experiment" into the nature of discovery and statistics
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Robert P Crease bemoans the US's failure to capitalize on an early opportunity to go metric
Read article: Missed metric moment
Robert P Crease calls for your view on what would count as a "discovery" in the search for dark matter
Read article: Discovering dark matter
The Hollywood actor Alan Alda, who has a deep and passionate interest in science, is part of an innovative US project to help scientists to communicate, as Robert P Crease finds out
Read article: Communicating science
Robert P Crease explains the enduring popularity of non-SI units, including the ox-day, firkin and litre
Read article: Your favourite units