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A More Natural Science

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

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Biology •
Physics •
Math •
Evolution •
Genetics •
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Symposium | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

The Unknown Newton

Church, Heresy, and Pure Religion
The Problem of Alchemy
Cosmos and Apocalypse
The Book of Nature, the Book of Scripture
The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers

Symposium

Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

Are we an insignificant speck?
Searching for Other Earths
Meaning in a Silent Universe
The Fine-Tuning of Nature’s Laws
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Review | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • David Kordahl

Inventing the Universe

Are quantum physicists making things up as they go along?

David Kordahl

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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

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

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