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On Absolutely Unsolvable Problems
Liesbeth De Mol
reply by Allyn Jackson
[short_description] It was not Alan Turing or Kurt Gödel, but Emil Post, who reflected most deeply on issues of absolutely unsolvable problems. He proposed an open-ended research program that was abandoned upon his death.
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Anything But Standard
Lawrence Krauss
reply by Sheldon Lee Glashow
[short_description] Key physical and mathematical insights allowed physicists, over a period of twenty-five years, to produce what will be viewed as one of the greatest scientific revolutions of the twentieth century.
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The Physics Law of Evolution
Adrian Bejan
reply by J. Scott Turner
[short_description] Our nature is continuous and morphing, not infinitesimal, discrete, and still. With the law of evolution, physics accounts for form and the time direction in evolving macroscopic structures everywhere.
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On Autopoiesis
Adam Scarfe
reply by J. Scott Turner
[short_description] Autopoiesis points to the basic hows underlying the homeostatic far-from-equilibrium states internal to the physiological organism that allow it to persist as a whole in the face of entropy.
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Thinking Big about the Plague
John Brooke
reply by Monica Green
[short_description] It has been suggested that the early plague, carried by the Early Bronze Age Yamnaya peoples (3300–2600 BCE) of the steppe, may have been the cause of population collapse in Neolithic Europe.
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On the Importance of History
Daniel Curtis & Joris Roosen
reply by Monica Green
[short_description] As interdisciplinary research on the plague shows, the importance of history and historical data will only increase from its use in conjunction with new forms of scientific evidence and methods.
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Old Sources, New Questions
Christof Paulus
reply by Monica Green
[short_description] Aspects of the plague still have no reasonable explanations. Of particular concern are the current estimates for the amount of time required for the bacterium to spread over such great distances.
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A Good Story Well Told
George Saliba
[short_description] No one could have told the story of al-Bīrūnī’s engagement with Islamic science, or even the story of the development and tribulations of Islamic science itself, better than Julio Samsó.
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Physical Mathematics
Édouard Brézin
[short_description] The two fields of physics and mathematics have always been intimately mixed. Even when explored independently, abstract mathematics often later found applications in the natural world.
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