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Physics

Cosmology without Design

Lawrence Krauss

Does the remarkable fit between living things and their environment suggest that life was designed by an intelligent creator? Lawrence Krauss argues that such an inference is not well founded.

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Political Science

Disinformed

Adam Garfinkle

Deepfakes create an illusion of reality more convincing than any produced in the past. Now is a time in which the line between reality and spectacle have already been blurred, Adam Garfinkle argues.

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Physics

The Yang–Mills Model

Sheldon Lee Glashow

A great master of theoretical physics reviews the development of the first and greatest non-abelian gauge theory and its role in the construction of the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Physics

Hot Wired

Brian Miller & Jeremy England

Jeremy England argues that descendants of the Crooks fluctuation theorem play a role in explaining life’s origin. Brian Miller is equally persuaded that these theorems are of little relevance.

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Linguistics

Misused Terms in Linguistics

Evelina Leivada

Many terms in linguistics are often used incorrectly or incoherently. Evelina Leivada points to ten of the very terms that linguists have learned to love, striking evidence that love is often blind.

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Economics

Good Eats

Vaclav Smil

Affluent countries currently produce far more food than they need, or could ever hope to consume. Vaclav Smil examines the enormity of this waste and its effects on health.

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Mathematics

The Director’s Cut

David Berlinski

One of the twentieth century’s great intellectual achievements is Kurt Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem. For many mathematicians, Gödel’s work remains difficult, uncanny in its power.

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Economics

The Miracle of General Equilibrium

Philip Pilkington

If general equilibrium theory does not accurately explain what happens in the real world, then what does? Philip Pilkington casts a critical eye over the foundations of mainstream economics.

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Physics

A Hot Mess

John Norton

Rolf Landauer proposed a principle that is still used for calculating the minimum heat generated by a computing device. John Norton argues that these propositions are either unfounded or refutable.