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With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional literature.
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Every year June 30 marks International Asteroid Day. A United Nations resolution from 2016 declares that that holiday serves to mark “the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russian Federation, on 30 June 1908 and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard.” Slick presentations, celebrity speakers, and numerous grassroots events occur worldwide […]
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There are a lot of questions about the validity of IQ tests and the nature of ‘intelligence’. Ken Richardson, author of Understanding Intelligence tries to tackle the problem at the heart of the subject of intelligence by putting intelligence in the context of living functions.
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‘Conversations on quantum gravity’ is physicist Jay Armas’ new book on the ongoing search for a theory of everything. In the book, Armas talks to 37 researchers – including five Nobel laureates and two Fields medalists - who share the current debates, the impact of their own discoveries and those of others, and their motivations to pursue the biggest questions about the world around us.
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During the socially and politically turbulent seventeenth century, Moroccan scholars studied the natural and mathematical sciences throughout a network of rural and urban institutions of learning that were closely associated with Sufi orders, the Maliki school of jurisprudence, and the Ash‘ari creed of theology. Their study of these sciences resulted in their writing works in […]
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Visions of a world organization armed with its own air force, imposing international law and order through high-tech aeroplanes, may sound like a science-fiction fantasy, straight from the books of H.G. Wells or movies and shows such as Avengers or Thunderbirds. My new book, Technological Internationalism and World Order: Aviation, Atomic Energy, and the Search […]
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The following is a Press Release prepared by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings for Nobel Life: Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their life stories, advice for future generations and what remains to be discovered by Stefano Sandrone
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Marie Tharp’s transatlantic profiles with her annotations of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its central valley. Acknowledgement: US Library of Congress. Simon Mitton. In this post on “deep carbon science” –– a fascinating research field in the geosciences –– I recount the research of Marie Tharp (1920–2006) a great pioneer in visualizing the geology of the […]
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