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Wired
December 2002
Gregg Easterbrook |
The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians.   |
Wired
December 2002
Kevin Kelly |
God Is the Machine Digital physics suggests that those strange and insubstantial quantum wavicles, along with everything else in the universe, are themselves made of nothing but 1s and 0s. The physical world itself is digital. |
Wired
July 2003
Gregg Easterbrook |
We're All Gonna Die! But it won't be from germ warfare, runaway nanobots, or shifting magnetic poles. A skeptical guide to Doomsday. |
Wired
May 2002 |
Long Bets Seventeen of the world's most wired minds stake their names -- and their cash -- on the future... |
Reason
March 2007
Kenneth Silber |
No Small Matter Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry? Book Review: The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2000 |
Science: Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Is there a Fountain of Youth? Will we cure cancer? Can we achieve immortality? Can we create artificial life? Where is the soul? Is the speed of light the ultimate speed limit? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we travel through time? |
| AskMen.com |
It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
Reason
April 2002
Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
Salon.com
July 6, 2000
John Farrell |
Did Einstein cheat? Is the great physicist's most famous theory a crock? Members of the anti-relativity underground think so. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012 |
The Cosmological Supercomputer How the Bolshoi simulation evolves the universe all over again |
Wired
February 2003
Oliver Morton |
Deep Impact It came, it seems, from outer space -- and it did so quickly. Mysterious objects from outer space are tearing their way through Earth -- and shaking up the physics world. |
Wired
Brian Greene |
Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure Science is about immersing ourselves in piercing uncertainty while struggling with the deepest of mysteries. |
Popular Mechanics
December 1, 2009
Peter Kelemen |
What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change What stolen e-mails from climate scientists corresponding with East Anglia University tell us about global warming and what they don't. |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
Wired
September 2006
Svoboda et al. |
The New Sky Lab The International Space Station (ISS) will determine the effects of weightlessness on microorganisms and on melting metals... Highways in 2026... Get Wiki with it... Deep space wine... Minor threat... SETI's cosmic lesson plan... science projects that scare us... etc. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
Wired
September 2006
Adam Rogers |
Physics Wars String theory was supposed to reconcile the subatomic world with the vast reaches of spacetime. Now Lee Smolin wants to unravel it. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber Scientists in Scotland say they have created a black hole's event horizon using laser pulses and microstructured optical fiber. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory and Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Adam Rogers |
Q&A: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise From his first book, a compendium of faux trivia aptly titled The Areas of My Expertise, to his fiction-spewing shtick on The Daily Show, Hodgman handles the most obscure subjects with an aura of invincible confidence. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
Wired
March 2006
Scott Thill |
Keeping It Reel Block Party, due in March, is like no rockumentary you've ever seen... What a knockout!... Anatomy of a Nerd... Life, the universe, and everything... Clean getaway... My first pimped ride... Personal space... Reviews... Playlist... Fetish... etc. |
Wired
January 2004 |
Rants & Raves Hail Linus... Tapping the Source... Open Question... Champing at the Bit... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
David Kushner |
Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages In a twist of timing unto itself, the DVD release of The Time Tunnel comes when the real science of warped passages is making waves. Warped Passages is the trippy and groundbreaking book on the hidden dimensions of the universe by Harvard physicist Lisa Randall. |
Wired
November 2005
Cooper et al. |
Gang of Four Remixes It Up This British postpunk band remix 14 of their songs from 25 years ago... Backstreet Boys let you pay to text message them during their shows... Xbox 360... Traveling through video games... A new technology horror movie makes its way from Japan... etc. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Time Travel Great minds have doubted time travel in the past, only to admit that the possibility simply cannot be excluded. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Theunis Bates |
Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Mark Anderson |
Never Mind the Singularity, Here's the Science Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. |
Science News
April 6, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 2, 1932 Teletypewriters can now be used in home... Einstein and de Sitter return to Euclidean idea of cosmos... Cannot know universe's shape without more observations... Entire universe still young, little older than earth itself... New long-time clock is rotation of Milky Way... etc. |
Wired
March 2007 |
Rants + Raves Design and deities... Natural selections... Eye candy for the ladies... Comments on the What We Don't Know issue... Benefit of sleep... Yahoo boos... Biological warfare... Fish gotta swim... I want my old MTV... Bashing the mashup... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Philip Taylor |
Inside LHC Launch Party, Not End of World & Scientists Feel Fine Some 400 physicists, engineers and students just finished camping out here at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory through the night, awaiting the birth of an extreme machine so powerful that it could soon reveal what lent mass to the universe in the first place. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Adam Rogers |
Read an Extended Version of Wired's Interview With Ron Moore Interview with the writer and producer of Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
Wired
September 2006
Rossignol et al. |
Use the Bricks, Luke A Star Wars game in which everything from the Millennium Falcon to the Wookiees is made of Legos... Ghost World: Pinky and Inky hunt Pac-Man on the streets of Manhattan... The most nerdtastic upcoming programs for prime time tv... etc. |
Wired
July 2005 |
Wired Test: Mobile Media More than 75 of the summer's hottest products, including MP3 players, gas grills, and golf drivers, tested and rated. |
Science News
July 16, 2005 |
From the July 13, 1935, Issue Soundproofing Gives Wall Look of Underground Cave... Professor Albert Einstein Announces a New Theory... Expansion of Universe Sole Explanation of Red Shift... |
Smithsonian
June 2005
Richard Panek |
The Year of Albert Einstein His dizzying discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid all the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math. |
