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Postings from the interface of science and culture

Sunday, May 09, 2021

The problematic themes of Modern Myths

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  In her review of my book The Modern Myths in the New York Times Review of Books , Sophie Gee asks why “ post-Enlight...
Monday, March 22, 2021

What we have seen: a year of lockdown

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  What we have seen is that global calamity can come in a strange and perplexing form, at the same time apocalyptic and w...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Free will and physics: the next instalment

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  I’m sorry that I seem to have forced Jerry Coyne to write about a subject he is avowedly tired of, namely free will. ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2020

More on free will, and why quantum mechanics can't help you understand football

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  I’ve had some stimulating further discussion with Philip Goff and Kevin Mitchell on whether quantum mechanics can illu...
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Friday, December 11, 2020

Does quantum mechanics rescue free will?

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  Philip Goff has challenged Kevin Mitchell’s interesting supposition that the indeterminacy of quantum physics creates ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Is the UK ready for a Covid winter?

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To prepare my article for The Guardian on whether the UK is prepared for a Covid winter, I spoke to many experts who gave a great deal of ...
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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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