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The Galileo Project: Looking Through the Window with New Telescopes
AVI LOEB | We cannot jump off the train of time as we age. It keeps going, so we better look through its windows. . .
Dec 7, 2023

The Surprising Origins of Experimental Science: A Conversation with Peter Harrison, Part Two
PETER HARRISON | Studying how science actually works as a human enterprise—with fallible human actors—gives you a very different view. . .
Nov 24, 2023

The Paradigm Shift: A New Vision of Science and Religion with Peter Harrison
PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .
Nov 10, 2023


NASA’s Psyche Mission: Lindy Elkins-Tanton in Conversation with Philip Ball
Their conversation is lively and illuminating as they discuss the importance of teamwork for the NASA launch. . .
Oct 27, 2023


Remembering Stephen Gaukroger: The History of Science and Philosophy
PETER HARRISON | Stephen Gaukroger was an eminent British-Australian scholar who specialized in the history of science and the history of...
Sep 28, 2023

Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning
PHILIP BALL | The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but
Jun 23, 2023


Can Science Be Unified? Oneness and Its Discontents
LISA H. SIDERIS | Deep within we long for unity because, at the most fundamental level, we are already one.
May 12, 2023


What is Scientific Truth—And Why Does it Keep Changing?
LORRAINE DASTON | Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s?
Apr 28, 2023


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 and the Idea of Progress
PETER HARRISON | The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the progress
Mar 30, 2023

Science, Imagination, and Poetry
Tom McLeish In memoriam: Professor Tom McLeish FRS (May 1, 1962 – February 27, 2023). Read as a PDF For at least a century, both public...
Mar 3, 2023


Science and the Healing of the World: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part Two
TOM McLEISH | Science is more about questions than answers, and that the critical imaginative move in science is to conceive of the creative
Feb 16, 2023
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