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The COVID Conversation
Sandro Galea
Policymakers and the media have reacted hastily to COVID-19 research, and not always for the best. Scientific researchers now have new responsibilities to contextualize their findings for the public.
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Inequality and Instability in the Time of COVID-19
Walter Scheidel
COVID-19 has widened fault lines between the advantaged and disadvantaged. Yet while many past crises leveled inequality, stabilizers in the modern economy may prevent social and policy reform.
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Digital Contact Tracing in South Korea
Jae Chun Choe
South Korea has impressively managed its COVID-19 crisis without lockdowns, roadblocks, or immigration controls. This is only possible given rapid and effective testing and contact tracing systems.
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Exponential Growth
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Exponential growth features frequently in epidemiological projections. Because of carelessness or ignorance, its implications can be easily, and sometimes grievously, underestimated.
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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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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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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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Reflections on Project Orion
Jeremy Bernstein
How might nuclear bombs propel a spaceship? Very carefully. Jeremy Bernstein recalls studying this problem with Freeman Dyson. Dyson’s previously unpublished remarks on the project are included.
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Apollo 11 and Fundamental Science
Álvaro De Rújula
Over the years, some commentators have unkindly suggested that the only interesting spin-off from the entire Apollo enterprise was the development of Moon Boots. This is simply not the case.
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