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For several years, I've been fascinated by the popular books of three physicists: Brian Greene , David Deutsch and Lawrence Krauss . ...

I came across an article in the French press about an ingenious device that apparently prevents night-time drivers from falling asleep at th...

Britain's New Scientist weekly has just put out a selection of 25 popular science books that "have changed the world" [ here...

As a youth in my native Grafton, I didn't think of myself as somebody who might be particularly interested in the flow of rivers. That...

In competitive track cycling, there's a curious technique—in the two-person racing format known as sprinting —that consists of standing ...

In my recent blog post entitled Wonders of the world [ display ] , I evoked the 58-year-old Israeli-born Oxford scientist David Deutsch . ...

Humans have always liked to draw up lists of the most marvelous things in the world. In Hellenistic times, a famous list of this kind contai...

In the humble and peaceful existence that I lead at Gamone, it's a fact that one of my greatest pleasures consists of having the privile...

This excellent book by the Oxford physicist David Deutsch came out a decade ago, but I've only just got around to reading it. Seeking t...