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A More Natural Science

Encountering nature beyond the limits of determinism, mechanism, and reduction

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Biology •
Physics •
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Evolution •
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Special Issue | Winter 2017

Winter 2017

Information, Matter, and Life

Why Information Matters
The Limits of Information
The Time of Our Lives
What Is It Like to Know?
Evolution and the Purposes of Life
The Use and Abuse of ‘Information’ in Biology
Mind Games
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Review | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Benjamin Liebeskind

Einstein in Athens

Modern science is unwittingly echoing Aristotle — and still has much to learn from him.

Benjamin Liebeskind

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Review | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • David Kordahl

Steven Weinberg Glimpses the Promised Land

The sage of physics takes on politics and philosophy — and dreams of science’s last day

David Kordahl

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Essay | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Algis Valiunas

The Most Dangerous Possible German

On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb

Algis Valiunas

Review | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • David Guaspari

Make Physics Real Again

Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?

David Guaspari

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Review | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • David Kordahl

Did Thomas Kuhn Kill Truth?

A debate on the nature of truth turns into a squabble over whether the father of the “paradigm shift” threw an ashtray at Errol Morris’s head.

David Kordahl

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Natalie Elliot

Shakespeare’s Worlds of Science

New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?

Natalie Elliot

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Essay | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • Algis Valiunas

Richard Feynman and the Pleasure Principle

How a cerebral hedonist became a scientific hero

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

  • Samuel Matlack

Quantum Poetics

Why physics can’t get rid of metaphor

Samuel Matlack

Essay | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

  • Algis Valiunas

The Evangelist of Molecular Biology

James D. Watson’s unfinished quest to master genetic destiny

Algis Valiunas

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