Read article: Individual recognition
Individual recognition
Sahal Yacoob describes how a "target culture" can cause problems when applied to academia
Read article: Individual recognition
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Insights on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, science fiction from the Indian astrophysicist Jayant V Narlikar and an overview of the cosmic microwave background
Read article: Web life: Cosmic Yarns
Web life: Cosmic Yarns
A cosmologist blogs about science fiction and the scientific questions it raises
Read article: The wealth of nations
The wealth of nations
Physicist César Hidalgo's argument for an information-centric view of economic growth is "wildly fresh and creative", says reviewer Mark Buchanan
Read article: Looking back on the H-bomb
Looking back on the H-bomb
A memoir by the physicist Kenneth Ford offers an "engagingly human glimpse" into the US physics community in the early 1950s, writes reviewer Richard Moore
Read article: An insidious and ubiquitous menace
An insidious and ubiquitous menace
A book about corrosion and the herculean efforts to combat it is "absorbing and interesting" but short on satisfying science, say reviewers
Read article: Physics logos
Physics logos
Is there a logo that unifies all of physics, wonders Robert P Crease
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books about the science of keeping things cool and a security breach at one of America’s premier nuclear-weapons facilities, plus a DVD featuring some very nerdy science comedy
Read article: Unique, but not exceptional
Unique, but not exceptional
A book that characterizes life on Earth as "special but not significant" gets Tamara Davis thinking about the interconnectedness of the cosmos
Read article: Web life: EGU Network blogs
Web life: EGU Network blogs
A collection of geology, geophysics and earth science blogs written by (mostly) European geoscientists
