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November 2008
Jason Daley |
5 Million Heads Are Better Than One After a half-century on his hands and knees, poking at bugs, Harvard ant geek and accidental eco-celebrity E.O. Wilson, 79, is back with The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies (W.W. Norton, $65)   |
Wired
Josh McHugh |
E.O. Wilson Returns to the Hive With Superorganism Tome With a new book on bugs, E.O. Wilson reignites the superorganism debate. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2014
Philip Ball |
The quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty This book explores the cultural reception of quantum physics since its earliest days, when Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and others grappled with the bizarre findings of their research, telling them how the world is structured. |
| Science News |
Book Review: The Lightness Of Being: Mass, Ether, And The Unification Of Forces By Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek explores the essence of the matter that makes up the universe - combining the enthusiasm of someone like Jeff Corwin with the thoughtfulness of a David Attenborough. |
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... |
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. |
Science News
August 6, 2005 |
From the August 3, 1935, issue Zeppelin Models Whirled at 200 Miles Per Hour in Tests... Prof. Bohr Opposes Einstein in Quantum Theory Controversy... |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2013
Philip Ball |
Quantum leaps of faith There's no reason to suppose that the way quantum mechanics was discovered is the most logical or obvious means to comprehend its conceptual foundations. In some recent re-evaluations of quantum theory, the 'quantum' becomes almost incidental. |
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
January 2005
Duff McDonald |
The BlackBerry Brain Trust First Mike Lazaridis reinvented the way we get email. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Albert Einstein We may love Einstein. But do we really know him? |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Could Someone Really Teleport Out of Jail?: Fringe Fact vs. Fiction In last night's episode of Fringe, "Ability," a man teleports out of prison. Scientists offer insight on how close this is to reality. |
Scientific American
August 2007
JR Minkel |
The Gedanken Experimenter In putting teleportation, entanglement and other quantum oddities to the test, physicist Anton Zeilinger hopes to find out just how unreal quantum reality can get. |
Science News
February 15, 2003 |
TimeLine: February 11, 1933 Yellow sodium light effective outdoors... Tuning in on atomic hearts makes their breaking easier... Einstein develops quantum mechanics in latest paper |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
