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Science Is a Long Story: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part One
TOM McLEISH | My grandmother actually was an important influence on me. She had done a degree at London University in the twenties
Feb 2, 2023


Why Einstein Wouldn’t Be Published Today: A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part Two
LORRAINE DASTON | Einstein’s 1905 article on special relativity is an article that no respectable physics journal today would print
Nov 11, 2022


Does Science Need History? A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part One
LORRAINE DASTON | If there is one moral to the history of science it is: whatever we believe now, we probably won’t believe
Oct 28, 2022


Science as a Human Story: The Royal Society Recognizes Philip Ball
PHILIP BALL | I’m particularly keen to set science within a wider historical, cultural, and philosophical context
Sep 15, 2022


Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI & OCEAN VUONG | Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Apr 15, 2022


MRB TV Goes Beyond Weird: Quantum Mechanics With Philip Ball, Part One
PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is the former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author of over 25 books on science
Feb 15, 2022


"A Small Good Thing" An Interview with John Wilson
JOHN WILSON | In the early age of COVID-19, I got to sit down with John Wilson to talk about his work as an editor...
Nov 20, 2020


The Real History of Fake News: An Interview with Vincent DiGirolamo
VINCENT DIGIROLAMO | Vincent DiGirolamo has devoted almost 30 years to documenting the lives of American children who hawked newspapers...
Oct 23, 2020


Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part Two
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA | And so, he saw the imagination of people, the tendency to think the tensions regarding Britishness and Irishness...
Feb 28, 2020


Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part One
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA | In the ancient world, rigid divisions between healers, poets, and spiritual leaders did not exist as they do today...
Feb 14, 2020


Decolonizing Philosophy: A Conversation with Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
The idea that philosophy and religion are in conflict is recent, only gaining widespread appeal in modernity.
Dec 21, 2018


Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar. Part Two.
NIGEL BIGGAR | Most people reckon the 2003 invasion of Iraq to have been immoral for four reasons...
Oct 29, 2013
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