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Mathematics

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A Truncated Manuscript

Pierre Schapira

In the mid-1980s, an enigmatic document began circulating in French mathematical circles. Pierre Schapira casts a critical eye over Alexander Grothendieck's Récoltes et Semailles, now published officially for the first time.

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Physics

Agents in the Ether

David Kordahl

In Imperial Science, Bruce Hunt details how the desire for quick communications across the British Empire, drove progress in the physical sciences towards a theory of the electromagnetic field.

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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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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

Americans at Armageddon

Guy Middleton

Eric Cline’s book Digging Up Armageddon tells the story of an archeological team from the University of Chicago that began digging at Megiddo during the mid-1920s.

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Physics

A Physicist’s Journey

Robert Socolow

Physicists skeptical about climate science are an anomaly in the scientific community. In his recent book, Lawrence Krauss seeks to bridge the chasm between physics and climate science.

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Physics

Interstellar Overdrive

Paul Sutter

‘Oumuamua was the first known interstellar object to visit the solar system. Extraterrestrial tries to make the case for ‘Oumuamua as a lightsail spacecraft created by extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Medicine

Expertise Unheeded

George Scialabba

In responding to pandemics, members from the middle levels of the US government have tried, usually futilely, to get the appointees above them to do the right thing, or merely to pay attention.

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