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Postings from the interface of science and culture

Thursday, November 07, 2019

The City is the City

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My brief from the wonderfully named Dream Adoption Society of the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw – for their 2019 exhibition...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

Just how conceptually economical is the Many Worlds Interpretation?

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An exchange of messages with Sabine Hossenfelder about the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics has helped me sharpen my vi...
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Thursday, September 05, 2019

Physics and Imagination

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This essay appears in Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination , a book edited by Ariane Koek and produced for an exhibition of the ...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Still trying to kill the cat

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Some discussion stemming from Erwin Schrödinger’s birthday prompts me to set out briefly why his cat is widely misunderstood and is actually...
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

A Place That Exists Only In Moonlight: a Q&A with Katie Paterson

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I have a Q&A with Katie Paterson in the 25 April issue of Nature . There was a lot in Katie’s comments that I didn’t have room for ther...
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Monday, April 15, 2019

Out of the ashes of Notre Dame

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There is no positive spin to put on the fire that has gutted Notre Dame Cathedral, and it could sound idiotic to think otherwise. This wa...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

How to write a science best-seller

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Everyone knows how science writing works. Academic scientists labour with great diligence to tease nuanced truths from theory and experiment...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Musical illusions

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Here's the English version of my column on music cognition for the current issue of the Italian science magazine Sapere . ____________...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

Why brief answers are sometimes not enough

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I reviewed Stephen Hawking's last book Brief Answers to the Big Questions for New Scientist , but it needed shortening and, in the prin...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

The "dark woman of DNA" goes missing again

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There’s a curious incident that took place at the excellent "Schrödinger at 75: The Future of Life" meeting in Dublin last week th...
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Friday, September 07, 2018

What Is Life? Schrödinger at 75

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The conference “Schrödinger at 75: The Future of Life” in Dublin, from which I’m now returning, was a fabulous event, packed with good talk...
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Philip Ball
I am a London-based writer, and the author of several books on aspects of science and its interactions with other aspects of culture. My latest book is The Modern Myths (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
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