We Can Only Imagine: The Consciousness of Physics
Physicist Ulf Danielsson’s The World Itself pins the powerful, slippery imagination and its impressive ideas about consciousness to matter’s messy, impermanent state.
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‘Wolfish’ Warily Looks Metaphorical and Literal Fear in the Eye
Wolfish: Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear engagingly weaves ecology, sociology, and history into a rich tapestry to warily gaze into the unblinking eye of fear.
In ‘How Far the Light Reaches’ Ocean Science and Memoir Make Magic
How Far the Light Reaches weaves struggles with identity – gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, and body image – with the immense diversity of marine life, revealing new ways to think about ourselves.
Stefano Mancuso’s ‘The Nation of Plants’ Gives the Green Party a Podium
Could humankind change its social structures to mimic plants' inherent strengths of cooperation and conservation?
For the Love of Japan: ‘The Sakura Obsession’
Naoko Abe's The Sakura Obsession chronicles the struggle to preserve diversity in a world of compulsive uniformity.
The Eternal Snow of Frozen Tears: Saving Melting Landscapes
Zürich's Institute of Landscape Architecture explores the fragile connection between mankind and nature in a multimedia project that merges science with art, turning sounds and images of a changing alpine glacier into a moving call to action.
’Good Enough’ Is Great on Darwin
In Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society, philosopher Daniel S. Milo argues that science and society have overemphasized Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection
Extras for an Hour, Voyagers for a Lifetime: ‘Live Long and Evolve’
Biology professor Mohamed A. F. Noor voyages through deep sci-fi in Live Long and Evolve, exploring how evolutionary biology is portrayed within the television franchise, Star Trek.
‘Unthinkable’ Gives Our Brains a Second Thought
Unthinkable is an eminently readable book that includes a wealth of information about how the brain functions.
Jeff Bridges on Emerging Ideas About Life
Reflecting on Susan Kucera's new science documentary, Living in the Future's Past, Bridges ponders new ways of thinking about who we are.
Time to Think: Carlo Rovelli on the Mysteries of Time
The Order of Time is a little wonder of a book. It provides surprising insights into an increasingly mysterious world, offers warmly humane reflections on our existential condition, and sustains a virtual conversation that will continue long after the reading has ceased.
‘The Stranger in the Woods’ Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Self-awareness is subjugated to the author's fascination with his muse in this telling of a modern-day hermit.