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)
Category: physics
We are all the Tin Woodman
In what sense are we the same person today as yesterday? (2200 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)
