We are all the Tin Woodman [Revised]
In what sense are we the same person today as yesterday? (4100 words)
Category: physics
The shape of things to come
Why did non-Euclidean geometry take so long to find its way into physics? (7700 words)
In praise of astonishment
Does our love of the new and strange, both in literature and science, flow from the same wellspring? On the restorative power of surprise. (900 words)
Learning to see [Aeon, American Scientist]
One astronomer’s dimpled pie is another’s cratered moon. How can our mind’s eye learn to see the new and unexpected? (3900 words)
A physics without time [Aeon]
From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? (3600 words)
The Icarus Question 