Symposium | Winter 2015
Winter 2015
The Practice of Science
On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams
On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams
Collection | Spring 2008
Spring 2008
How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research
On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb
How the man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers
A debate on the nature of truth turns into a squabble over whether the father of the “paradigm shift” threw an ashtray at Errol Morris’s head.
New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?