Archive for November, 2006
Monday, November 27th, 2006
The End of Science meets SETI
Seth Shostak, senior astronomer of the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) Institute, recently interviewed me on the Institute’s weekly science show. Go to the website of the SETI Institute and scroll down to “The End of Science: A New Beginning,” broadcast on November 1, or just go to this url
We covered a lot of ground: neuroscience, string theory, nanotechnology and of course the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
Ten New Books
Followers of John Horgan’s blog, Horganism, will already know that he has posted the next ten books on our growing list. The complete list, with readers’ comments, can be found here. The new additions are:
Gardner, Martin, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Dover, 1957. This was a tough choice. The mathematician, puzzler and magician Gardner is probably best-known as the author of Scientific