Imaginative intersection
Rachel Brazil reviews Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination edited by Ariane Koek
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The feelings you get when you discover something new
Robert P Crease explores the range of emotions physicists have when they discover or hear about something new
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Why COVID-19 could make physicists kick some of their habits forever
Could the virus behind COVID-19 be the event that shifts our habits on driving and flying forever?
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Innovation must continue in a COVID-19 world
Richard Bray says the protection of new ideas remains crucial now, just as it did before the COVID-19 pandemic
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From Post-it Notes to microwaves – why serendipity lies at the heart of innovation
Accidental discoveries lie at the heart of many technological innovations. James McKenzie runs through his favourites
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Quantum inheritance and the ongoing quest for meaning
Phillip Ball reviews Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser
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This is the critical point
Robert P Crease worries that physicists don’t realize why the humanities are so important
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Money from maths
David Appell reviews The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
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Learning from Black Swan events
Christopher Lavers says that when it comes to dealing with COVID-19, lessons should have been learned from previous crises
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What would you do?
If you'd heard rumours that a physicist had abused others, would you – asks Robert P Crease – follow those rumours up?
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