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)
Come for the science, stay for the stories. Because we need both.
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)
In what sense are we the same person today as yesterday? (2200 words)
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)
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)