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A Swiss-French political activist and writer on political theory and religion.

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Heat, work and subtle fluids: a commentary on Joule

Heat, work and subtle fluids: a commentary on Joule

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James Joule played the major role in establishing the conservation of energy, or the first law of thermodynamics, as a universal, all-pervasive principle of physics. He was an experimentalist par excellence and his place in the development of thermodynamics is unarguable. This article discusses Joule's life and scientific work culminating in the 1850 paper, where he presented his detailed measurements of the mechanical equivalent of heat using his famous paddle-wheel apparatus. Joule's long series of experiments in the 1840s leading to his realisation that the conservation of en...

Johann Joachim Becher and the Phlogiston Theory of Combustion

Johann Joachim Becher and the Phlogiston Theory of Combustion

On May 6, 1636, German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar and adventurer Johann Joachim Becher was born. He is best known for his development of the phlogiston theory of combustion, in which all flammable objects were supposed to contain a substance which was released when the object burned and his advancement of Austrian cameralism.“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I s...

Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science

Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts on the Fourth of July, 1804 to Elizabeth Manning and Nathaniel Hathorne. (Haunted by an ancestor who was complicit in the Salem witch trials, he added the w later in life.) His father, a captain, died at sea when he was only four; his mother raised him and his two sisters in the home of her relatives, doting aunts and uncles all. Due to a foot injury in 1813, he was confined to his bed for over a year, and spent long hours in the company of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Spenser’s Faerie Queene — one of several times in his life when he ...

Einstein, Bohr and the war over quantum theory

Einstein, Bohr and the war over quantum theory

Ramin Skibba explores a history of unresolved questions beyond the Copenhagen interpretation.All hell broke loose in physics some 90 years ago. Quantum theory emerged — partly in heated clashes between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. It posed a challenge to the very nature of science, and arguably continues to do so, by severely straining the relationship between theory and the nature of reality. Adam Becker, a science writer and astrophysicist, explores this tangled tale in What Is Real?.Becker questions the hegemony of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Pr...

Heat, work and subtle fluids: a commentary on Joule

Johann Joachim Becher and the Phlogiston Theory of Combustion

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Einstein, Bohr and the war over quantum theory

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A History of Jewish Genius: Exploring the Contributions of Jews to Science, Medicine, and the Arts

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A History of Jewish Genius: Exploring the Contributions of Jews to Science, Medicine, and the Arts

Throughout history, Jews have made significant contributions to science, medicine, and the arts. Despite comprising a small percentage of the global population, Jews have won a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes in these fields, and their contributions have had a lasting impact o...

Velázquez’s Las Meninas: A detail that decodes a masterpiece

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Velázquez’s Las Meninas: A detail that decodes a masterpiece

Sometimes a vase is just a vase. Sometimes it’s a portal to another plane of perception. In Diego Velázquez’s 17th-Century masterpiece Las Meninas, a ricochet of shadows and mirrors that never ceases to intrigue, a small and underappreciated clay jug at the centre of the canvas transforms the wor...

A Pep Talk from Steven Pinker

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A Pep Talk from Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker irks many of his fellow intellectuals. I’ve knocked him myself for his views on postmodernism and the origins of war, and he’s knocked me back. I am nonetheless a longtime admirer of the psychology professor turned megapundit, who packages big ideas and voluminous research in lucid,...