Reads tagged with “science”
The Scientific Poetics of Affection: Lewis Thomas on Altruism and Why We Are Wired for Friendship
“Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends… Maybe altruism is our most primitive attribute, out of reach, beyond our control.”
Japanese Artist Ryota Kajita’s Otherworldly Photographs of Ice Formation in Alaska
A visual serenade to one of the most beautiful and seemingly miraculous phenomena of the physical universe.
What We Imagine Knowledge to Be: James Gleick Reads Elizabeth Bishop
“If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world…”
Stephen Hawking on What Makes a Good Theory and the Quest for a Theory of Everything
“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.”
The Universe in Verse: Astrophysicist Natalie Batalha Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Renascence” and Tells a Lyrical Personal Story About Her Path to Science
A poetic reflection on what we look at and what we see through the veils of our perception.
Physicist Alan Lightman on the Illusion of Absolute Rest
The beautiful and disorienting science of why we are mostly restlessness and empty space.
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elizebeth Friedman
How an unsung heroine established a new field of science and helped defeat the Nazis with pencil, paper, and perseverance.
Why the Sea Is Blue: Rachel Carson on the Science and Splendor of the Marine Spectrum
“The deep blue water of the open sea far from land is the color of emptiness and barrenness; the green water of the coastal areas, with all its varying hues, is the color of life.”
Loneliness in Time: Physicist Freeman Dyson on Immigration and How Severing Our Connection to the Past Shallows Our Present and Hollows Our History
An antidote to today’s perilous self-expatriation from history.
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