Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene was a landmark book in many ways: the first to lay out for a general audience the gen
More on the beauty question
Here’s my review of Frank Wilczek’s book A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, which appeared in Physics
What's in a name?
Shawn Burdette’s blog post on element-naming has some nice things in it, but I wonder if he appreciates that the entire
Does music really need a new philosophy?
I always enjoy Roger Scruton’s writing on music, even when I disagree with him vehemently. That holds true for his piec
The place of the periodic table
I can fully understand that Eric Scerri, who has done so much to explain, popularize and clarify the periodic table, wo
The myth of the Enlightenment (again)
To cite Kant in defence of the “Enlightement values” of freedom of speech, democratic representation, universal equalit
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