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Physics

Before Before

Stanley Deser

More than most laymen, physicists are floored by the idea of the Big Bang. They are confounded also by the structures that govern the resulting universe. They know too much not to feel mystified.

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Archaeology

The Riddle of the Mountain

Edmund Richardson

For almost 2,000 years, the Behistun Inscription lay unread. Written in cuneiform, the inscription had “baffled for centuries the most learned men” until Henry Rawlinson set his mind to solving it.

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Biology

Memories of
E. O. Wilson

Walter Tschinkel

Wilson’s life was an astounding journey from a child collecting snakes and ants, to a top-ranking academic biologist, to one of the best-known public champions of nature. He died late in 2021.

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Biology

Parallel Histories

Raghavendra Gadagkar

Twentieth century research into bacteriophages and sarcoma agents radically reshaped what virologists thought they knew, and laid the foundations for our current understanding of viruses.

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Physics

Heart of Darkness

Subir Sarkar

Is the standard model of cosmology wrong? Subir Sarkar argues that the discovery of dark energy, the basis of widely accepted models, was simply an accident waiting to happen.

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Archaeology

Anarchaeology

Lawrence Rosen

In The Dawn of Everything, speculative archaeology meets a personal advocacy of anarchy, and the result is “a new history of humanity.” Welcome anarchaeology.

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Physics

Underselling Hawking

Bernard Carr

Four years after the death of Stephen Hawking, Charles Seife published a biography, Hawking Hawking. It painted him as a second-rate physicist who manipulated the media for his own fame.

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Anthropology

The Nature of Art

Armand Marie Leroi

Can pieces of art be related in the way that biological species can? In living things, phylogenic links are forged by the inheritance of genetic material; in culture, by influential ideas.

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Medicine

+ French version

Thunder Out of China

Yuri Deigin

Questions about the origins of COVID-19 are of more than academic interest. For the moment, the best explanation seems to be that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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