Longing for Laputa
Robert P Crease wonders whether scientists shouldn't rule the world after all
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Wrong turns and dead ends
Len Fisher reviews a book about the mistakes made by great scientists throughout history, including Darwin, Kelvin and Einstein
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A romantic scientist
A "magnificent and superior" biography of the 19th-century Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted, reviewed by Anja Skaar Jacobsen
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Between the lines: Christmas special
Books about the mathematics in The Simpsons, vanishing starry nights, medical physics, big questions and some very weird life forms
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Making sense of Oppenheimer
Ray Monk’s landmark biography of “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, reviewed by Robert P Crease
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In search of the real Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking's new memoir, plus an anthropological study of how Hawking interacts with his colleagues and assistants, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Letting the sunshine in
A book about “sustainable” strategies for providing food and energy to a future population of nine billion, reviewed by Alison Walker
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Web life: Empirical Zeal
A blog about physics and evolutionary biology that packs a quantitative punch
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Politics or physics?
Gerard DeGroot reviews Churchill’s Bomb, Graham Farmelo’s new book on Winston Churchill and the atomic bomb project
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Deciding with science
Robert P Crease wonders why scientific input to important policy issues is so often ignored when it's actually critical
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