Category: Science

12 December, 2011

Rachael Goddard-Rebstein

Psychometrics

Jon Ronsen's The Psychopath Test scrutinises the criteria of one of mental health's most popularised disorders.


25 July, 2011

Joel Krupa

Guided by Gaia

Tim Flannery's Here on Earth deploys innovative scientific concepts to address the looming environmental crisis.


27 June, 2011

Louise Weston

The Near-Miracle of Detailed Understanding

Peter Atkins deploys scientific explanation to displace religious sentiment in our understanding of life and the universe.


9 June, 2011

Samuel Bjork

Brain Matters



4 April, 2011

Josh Rosaler

An Interview with Brian Greene

Brian Greene speaks about parallel worlds, the new atheism, and the relationship between the humanities and sciences.


14 March, 2011

Josh Rosaler

Universes of Possibilities

Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality explores the notion that our universe may be one among many parallel universes.


2 March, 2011

William Kolkey

An Interview with Philip Ball

Philip Ball on Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People


1 March, 2011

Kate Steinweg

At Snail’s Pace

The tiny grinding teeth of a munching mollusc


7 February, 2011

William Kolkey and Alexander Barker

An Interview with Richard Watson

New technologies' influence on our minds


31 January, 2011

Ed Sugden

A Fragment of the Mystery We Are

Marilynne Robinson's Absence of Mind dismisses "parascientific" theory to uphold the self as a free actor.