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issue_43

Spark of Science: Rob Pringle

The Princeton ecologist tells us about the scientists who inspired his work.

December 20, 2016

What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics?

Einstein and Feynman ushered me into grad school, reality ushered me out.

December 19, 2016

Why Christopher Hitchens Was a Hero to Scientists

The writer had a reverence for science and philosophy, and a conviction that both should be the basis of personal belief and ethics in society.

December 15, 2016

Why Sex Is Mostly Binary but Gender Is a Spectrum

A short genetic history of one of the most profound dimensions of human identity.

December 15, 2016

Video Games Are Changing the Hero

This is what happens when we can occupy our heroes’ bodies.

December 15, 2016

How We Got From Doc Brown to Walter White

The changing image of the TV scientist.

December 15, 2016

Will Lovelace and Babbage Save the Economy?

A fictional tale starring the inventors of the first computer.

December 15, 2016

If Not Darwin, Who?

An alternative history of the great ideas of science.

December 14, 2016