Massimo Pigliucci is the author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press). His essays can be found at Rationally Speaking ...
As Ernest Hemingway famously claimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” In his latest novel, James, Percival Everett reimagines Twain’s ...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics for “aperture synthesis”. This is the technique of using several radio dishes in concert to mimic, or “synthesise”, the ...