The periodic table: matter matters
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The Witches’ Sabbath
This week’s guest blogger is Manjit Kumar. Manjit’s book_, Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate,2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300958722&sr=8-2 is about the nature of reality, and was shortlisted for the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction. He writes and reviews regularly for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Times and the New Scientist. He used to edit a journal called Prometheus that covers the arts and sciences, and he was also the consulting science editor at UK Wired._ … Read more
The Living Dinosaur
This post was originally published in Harvard Magazine, the alumni magazine of Harvard University. Read more
The Language of Genetics
Denis Alexander is this week’s guest blogger. He has spent 40 years in the biological research community in various parts of the world, latterly as Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge which he left in 2008. Since then he has been heading up the new Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where he is a fellow. Read more
Science owes much to both Christianity and the Middle Ages
This week’s guest blogger is James Hannam, he has a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and is the author of The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution (published in the UK as God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science). Read more
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
This weeks guest blogger, Patricia Fara, discusses some problems she faced when deciding how to begin her most recent book "Science: A Four Thousand Year History". She lectures on the history of science at Cambridge University, where she is Senior Tutor of Clare College. Her other successful books include Newton: The Making of Genius (2002), Sex, Botany and Empire (2003) and Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment (2004). Lewis Carroll knew how difficult it can be to tell a story. ‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?’, asked the White Rabbit. Alice listened for the answer. ‘Begin … Read more
The Meeting of Minds
This week’s guest blogger is Manjit Kumar. Manjit’s book_, Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate,2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300958722&sr=8-2 is about the nature of reality, and was shortlisted for the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction. He writes and reviews regularly for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Times and the New Scientist. He used to edit a journal called Prometheus that covers the arts and sciences, and he was also the consulting science editor at UK Wired._ … Read more
What is milk?
Peter Atkins is Professor of Geography at Durham University . His main research interest is in food and drink, with particular reference to their materiality; the stuff in foodstuffs. His work ranges from arsenic poisoning in the groundwater in Bangladesh to a history of milk. His latest book, Liquid Materialities: a History of Milk, Science and the Law was published in 2010. Read more
Does genius follow the ten-year rule?
Our guest blogger this week is Andrew Robinson, the author of over twenty books on both the arts and sciences. They include biographies of Albert Einstein, A Hundred Years of Relativity, and of the polymath Thomas Young, The Last Man Who Knew Everything. He recently published a biographical study, Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs. Gradual preparation with sudden illumination, dogged work with a “eureka” experience, perspiration with inspiration—whichever pair of contrasts one prefers—are defining features of creative breakthroughs in any domain of science or art. In Thomas Edison’s much-quoted remark, from around 1903, “Genius is one per … Read more
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