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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Lonely Universe
Charles Lineweaver
Is anybody out there? Likely not. The occurrence of intelligent life on Earth is moot when modeling for its likelihood on other planets.
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Old Age and Creativity
Stanley Deser
Physics seems to have no very old top-tier contributors. The field’s greatest giants have either died young, stopped meaningful work well before they died, or changed fields mid-career.
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