The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner, covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture, science and the wider universe. It culminates in a discussion of whether nature's conservation of parity is ever violated, which had been proven experimentally in 1956.
Is the Multiverse in the Mind or is the Mind in the Multiverse? with Bernard Carr
Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…
Brandon Yates on Twitter / X
I wrote a cosmology paper that's under peer review.I can't post it to arXiv because I don't have a university affiliation.If any of you happen to have published in astro-ph. CO, gr-qc, or hep-ph and can endorse me, I'd owe you one.#AcademicTwitter #PhysicsTwitter #Cosmology…— Brandon Yates (@bmichaelyates) March 13, 2026
Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2024. 290 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1-68571-190-0. DOI: 10.53288/0466.1.00. OPEN-ACCESS e-book and $39.00 in print: paperbound/7 X 10 in.
The Philosophical Implications of the Second Scientific Revolution
Notes from my history of philosophy course lecture on Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein, and Bohr
ORI Polls App
The director of research at the Qualia Research Institute recently posted this poll asking whether people believed in universes with different laws of physics
The era of precision cosmology with voids
Cosmic voids, the large underdense regions of our Universe, have emerged over the past decade as powerful cosmological laboratories: their simple dynamics, sensitivity to local gravitational...
Might Unmakes Right
The catastrophic collapse of norms against the use of force.
A budding discipline around how science gets read and judged - Aris
Scholarly publishing spent thirty years arguing about access. It has barely begun arguing about what readers do with the paper once they have it. At Aris we call that second argument scholarly interface design. Mike Morrison's community calls it ScienceUX. Either way it is becoming a field, and here is why it is worth your attention.
Volume 384 Issue 2320 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the physical mathematical and engineering sciences.
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding—and at ...
The Origins Of <br>‘Planetary Realism’ And <br>‘Whole Earth’ Thinking | NOEMA
There is no escaping an interconnected world.
