What Is Soft Matter?
Philip Ball on Tom McLeish The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble. It’s an apt characterization, recognizing that
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Establishing Truth That’s Trusted in the Gospels and Today
Ramsay MacMullen A front-page feature of the NY Times Science section recently (March 3, 2020) explained how social animals, from primates down through
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The Ethnocentrism of Science: Race, Biology, and Bigoted Fictions
Matthew Mutter on Charles King Near the end of Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King plucks a 1958 letter from Margaret Mead’s
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Science and Human Values: An Interview with Peter Harrison
Peter Harrison in Conversation Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and it affects all of us. It has changed our world and
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The Revival of Raced-Based Medicine: Eugenics, Religion, and the Black Experience
Audrey Farley on K. A. Johnson In a 2018 Vogue magazine cover story, tennis star Serena Williams shared her harrowing experiences in the
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Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics
Audrey Farley on Michael Pollan In 1855, while on an expedition of the interior of Africa, the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
David Currell reviews recent books on a timely classic. Imagine this review beginning with
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Figuring the Unknown
A review of Judith H. Anderson’s Light and Death: Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton. In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named
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When Literature was Science
Clio Doyle reviews Claire Preston’s The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature.
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