Fiendishly puzzling
Physics World reviews The GCHQ Puzzle Book
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You are here
Margaret Harris reviews Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner
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Is the universe a sponge?
J Richard Gott’s book on the large-scale topology of the universe goes beyond a “Cosmology 101” pseudo-history, writes Martin Bucher
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Web life: Ice Flows
Guide penguins to their Antarctic feeding grounds and learn about the behaviour of ice sheets in the Ice Flows game
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How weather became a science
A book on three pioneers of meteorology reveals much about their science, although little about their personalities, says David M Schultz
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Brewing coffee
Robert P Crease finds there’s more to espresso machines than meets the eye
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Why aye, astronomer lad
Margaret Harris reviews An Astronomer’s Tale by Gary Fildes
Science under duress
Margaret Harris reviews Stalin and the Scientists: a History of Triumph and Tragedy by Simon Ings
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The struggle for convergence
Are all the fields of science converging towards a unified narrative? Manjit Kumar assesses the “deepest idea in the universe”
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Web life: Precarious Physicist
If teaching physics to undergraduates strikes you as a secure, well-respected and at least somewhat highly paid job, this blog will challenge your assumptions
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