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The universal feeling of being a stranger in a strange land helped motivate this book. When I first moved to the Maryland coast to start a postdoc, I was stunned by its varied beauty and, coming from the high desert, its difference.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is known for its comprehensive Assessment Reports about the state of scientific, technical and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, and about its impacts, future risks and the options for reducing the rate at which climate change is taking place.
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Writers from Polybius to Machiavelli to Twain to Toynbee to Tuchman have observed how events in history seem to repeat down through the centuries and millennia.
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Keith Frayn, author of Understanding Human Metabolism address some of the major misconceptions about human metabolism.
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The phrase “life, but not as we know it” is often encountered in science fiction. But what of reality? Should we expect life-forms on other planets to be like variants of life on Earth, or should we expect “something completely different”, a notion that echoes a different genre of fiction – Monty Python.
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Thomas Hardy, author of Tess of the d’Urbervilles and other great novels, was also a poet. Born and raised a member of the Church of England, his faith was shattered on reading Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, published in 1859.
Read MoreFat. What a terrible word. It’s what we don’t want. Actually we need a fast way to get rid of it.
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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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