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
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Web life: EGU Network blogs
A collection of geology, geophysics and earth science blogs written by (mostly) European geoscientists
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A very brief history of relativity
Reviewer Cormac O'Raifeartaigh enjoys this "beautifully written" account of the genesis of Einstein's greatest theory
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Better science policy
Robert P Crease looks at an ambitious programme to improve how science policy is formulated
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Removing barriers for sexual and gender minorities in physics
Elena Long argues that more needs to be done to support physicists who are sexual and gender minorities
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Between the lines
Books on household science, ambitious plans for living on Mars and the most important numbers in physics, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Web life: Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics
The venerable "journal club" concept is thriving in the online environment
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Room at the bottom
A biography of Silicon Valley's "quiet revolutionary", Gordon Moore, gets Paul Michael Grant thinking about the future of Moore's eponymous law
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A quest for ultimate reality
Melanie Windridge reviews Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: a Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing and the Beginning of Everything by Amanda Gefter
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Lab lit revealed
Robert P Crease talks to the founder of a website devoted to literature about laboratories
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