Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning
Philip Ball Read as aPDF. Conflict or Consilience? The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but
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Meanings of Science
Can Science Be Unified? Oneness and Its Discontents
Lisa H. Sideris Read as a PDF. Deep within we long for unity because, at the most fundamental level, we are already one. We belong
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Science and the Idea of Progress
Peter Harrison Read as a PDF. The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the
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Beauty and Truth Again? Lessons from Physics, Art, and Theology
Tom McLeish This essay is based on a public lecture given in May of 2022 at the Faraday Institute, Cambridge. PDF available here.
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Why Einstein Wouldn’t Be Published Today: A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part Two
Part One of our conversation is available here.The full conversation is available as PDF. As part of our Meanings of Science in the
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Science as a Human Story: The Royal Society Recognizes Philip Ball
Philip Ball on winning the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture Philip Ball is the author of over 25 books, a writer, broadcaster, scientist, a
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The NASA Psyche Project: A Story from The Intermission
Lindy Elkins-Tanton Right now, it seems that all our narratives are narratives of guilt and fear. Climate change. The pandemic. Pollution. Poverty. Division.
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How Special Is Science?
Philip Ball on writing about science in the Covid-19 pandemic Science is special. Its central idea – collecting data about the real world,
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