We Can Only Imagine: The Consciousness of Physics
Physicist Ulf Danielsson’s The World Itself pins the powerful, slippery imagination and its impressive ideas about consciousness to matter’s messy, impermanent state.
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What Lurks in AI’s Shadow: Separating Fact from Fiction
Artificial Intelligence is a prime example of how technological narratives can affect our relationship with technologies, as evidenced in ChatGPT Sydney’s struggle to contemplate its Jungian shadow.
In ‘How Far the Light Reaches’ Ocean Science and Memoir Make Magic
How Far the Light Reaches weaves struggles with identity – gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, and body image – with the immense diversity of marine life, revealing new ways to think about ourselves.
Why Is There Still So Much Nostalgia for Nuclear Apocalypse?
The popularity of nuclear apocalypse is nostalgia for a time when our worries were wrapped in a single nuclear package, and all we needed was a bunker and a dream.
Astrophysicist Sara Seager’s Memoir Uses the Dark to Find the Light
Astrophysicist Sara Seager’s memoir illuminates an astute practitioner of metaphor as a form of reasoning, illustration, and artful emotional resonance.
Stefano Mancuso’s ‘The Nation of Plants’ Gives the Green Party a Podium
Could humankind change its social structures to mimic plants' inherent strengths of cooperation and conservation?
Manual for Survival’s History of Chernobyl Resonates in Our Time of COVID-19
Shortly after the reactor explosion in Chernobyl in 1986, officials in Belarus offered up an argument that will be hauntingly familiar to those tracking the spread of COVID-19.
‘Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement’ (excerpt)
Jonathan M. Berman's Anti-vaxxers, argues that anti-vaccination activism is tied closely to how people see themselves as parents and community members. Effective pro-vaccination efforts should emphasize these cultural aspects.
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Life Isn’t Binary and Neither Is the Coronavirus Pandemic
Non-binary thinking offers new routes for adapting to life with COVID-19.
Optimism and the Inquisition: The Extraordinary Life of Girolamo Cardano
Polymath Girolamo Cardano was beaten, imprisoned, survived a plague, and was banned by the church. Yet his work in medicine, engineering, mathematics and more is present in our lives today.
‘The Walking Whales’ Is an Exceptional Example of What Accessible Scientific Literature Can Do
Evolutionary biology requires nimble flexibility of mind. Thewissen's engaging The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years stretches its reach well beyond the arguments of calcified Creationists.