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Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Philosophy and science alike take as their ultimate aim to enlarge our understanding of Science & Humanism
Apr 14, 2023


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


Quantum Information Theory: Philip Ball on Beyond Weird, Part Two
PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author
May 21, 2022


Five Women Anthropologists Who Defied The Status Quo
TIMOTHY LARSEN | The first generation of women anthropologists set out to live markedly different lives
Apr 8, 2022


Marcel Proust, Physics, and Lost Time
STANLEY DESER | In 1941, aged ten, I came to the US with my parents as a refugee from France.
Mar 25, 2022


Cosmic Humility: Harvard’s Avi Loeb on Extraterrestrials and The Future of Science
AVI LOEB | In the Fall of 2017, atop the dormant volcano Heleakalā, in Maui, Hawaii, Pan-STARRS, a state-of-the-art network of telescopes
Mar 11, 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


For the Life of Science: Philip Ball on Quantum Physics and The Writing Life
PHILIP BALL | But for me, it just feels like it’s too good an opportunity to waste not to broaden my horizons with every book I write.
Feb 11, 2022


Scholarship Out of Time: Weimar’s Lost Existence
SAMUEL LONCAR | The academic world is not monotheistic...
Jan 14, 2022


No Gods, No Masters
VINCENT LLOYD | What does an atheist want? The answer is simple: freedom from domination. A powerful instinct toward liberation
Nov 19, 2021


What is Soft Matter?
PHILIP BALL | The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble.
Dec 4, 2020


Science and Human Values: An Interview with Peter Harrison
PETER HARRISON | Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and it affects all of us.
Mar 13, 2020
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