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Oct 27, 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. . .
Sep 28, 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...
Jun 23, 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
May 12, 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.
Apr 27, 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 13, 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
Mar 30, 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 3, 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...
Feb 16, 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 2, 2023
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
Nov 11, 2022
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
Beauty and Truth Again? Lessons from Physics, Art, and Theology
TOM McLEISH | There are distinct signs that the poet John Keats’ Grecian Urn has found its voice again. This is a surprise.
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