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Nadir Jeevanjee

reply by Robert Socolow

[short_description] The gulf between physics and climate science is a strange one. Those who have transitioned from one to the other call for physicists to engage more deeply with the science of climate change.

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Remembering Stephen Hawking

Sheldon Lee Glashow

[short_description] Bernard Carr has mounted a sensitive and effective defense against the slings and arrows launched at Stephen Hawking by Charles Seife in his offensively named and outrageously written book.

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Needham and the Yijing

Richard Smith

reply by Shellen Wu

[short_description] Modern science and technology arose in the West after Galileo, but did not similarly arise in China. Was it the Yijing that stood in the way of Chinese scientific development?

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Dividing Paradoxes and Theorems

Jonas Becker Arenhart

[short_description] In logic, difficulties arise when results use self-reference in their derivation. The challenge is to determine which of such results are respectable theorems and which are merely dangerous paradoxes.

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Hutton, Heroes, and History

Victor Baker

reply by Mike Leeder

[short_description] James Hutton is widely recognized as the founder of modern geology. Should he be? His role in the development of geology might be as controversial as his ideas were when he published them.

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Mapping Uncharted Territory

Serim Ilday

reply by Michael Engel

[short_description] Far from equilibrium is far from understood. The authors discuss scale-invariant autocatalytic sigmoidal growth and Tracy–Widom statistics with respect to universal dissipative self-assembly.

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The High-Pressure Search for Metallic Hydrogen

Graeme Ackland

reply by Isaac Silvera & Ranga Dias

[short_description] In this energetic exchange, the original authors and Graeme Ackland express markedly differing views about progress and recent achievements in the study of metallic hydrogen.

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Linguistics as Science, Language as Mystery

Evelina Leivada

reply by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

[short_description] Notions of competence and performance, language as a mystery, and the promotion of linguistics into a science—Evelina Leivada discusses controversial points in Anna Maria Di Sciullo’s essay.

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More Aspects of Aspects

Howard Lasnik

reply by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

[short_description] Howard Lasnik elaborates on some of Anna Maria Di Sciullo’s points regarding Aspects of the Theory of Syntax—Noam Chomsky’s landmark text in the investigation of human language and cognitive capacity.

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