Jim Al-Khalili’s simple guide to science
Robert P Crease reviews The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili
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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 reviews The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili
Read article: Jim Al-Khalili’s simple guide to science
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Robert P Crease visits the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York, which claims to house the largest collection of glass art and artefacts in the world
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Can you distinguish experimental errors from the real voice of nature? Robert P Crease wants your stories
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Robert P Crease explains how these little creatures have inspired him to create a university course that should appeal to humanities and science students alike
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Robert P Crease wonders what lessons we can learn from movies about comets and asteroids heading towards Earth
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