Recent Publications by CSW Staff

• August, 2007: The Future of Music: Tearing Down the Wall of Noise, by Suhas Sreedhar.

  Suhas Sreedhar shows how changes in audio mastering technology coupled with the misguided visions of record companies and innovations such as the iPod have contributed to a reduction in audio fidelity over the last twenty years. Songs are being produced at louder and louder levels, sacrificing dynamics in the process.

  
  
• June 4, 2007: Quantum Scoop: The Holy Grail of Particle Physics May Already Have Been Found, by James Owen Weatherall.

  Jim Weatherall argues that if the Higgs Boson is observed as predicted by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, there may be little more to find. And so, physicists should (and often do) hope that something more complicated happens at the next generation of particle accelerators.

  
  
• February, 2007: Francis Collins: The Scientist as Believer, by John Horgan.

  John Horgan interviews Francis Collins, the head of the Human Genome Project and a devout Christian. From National Geographic.

  
  
• December, 2006: The God Experiments, by John Horgan.

  Several recent experiments have tried to understand religion and religious experience in terms of neuroscience. Horgan looks at five of these. Originally in Discover Magazine

  
  
• October, 2006: The Final Frontier, by John Horgan.

  Ten years after the publication of The End of Science, Horgan returns to his thesis to analyze how it- and the myriad objections he's faced in its aftermath- have withstood the tests of time.



• August, 2006: Stringing Us Along, by John Horgan.

  A review of Peter Woit's book, Not Even Wrong, for the British magazine Prospect.



• April 16, 2006: Rent-a-Genius, by John Horgan.

  John Horgan's review of The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite, by Ann Finkbeiner, from the New York Times Book Review.



• April 7, 2006: The Templeton Foundation: A skeptic's take, by John Horgan.

  From the Chronicle of Higher Education, this controversial essay questions the influences and hidden motives of the Templeton Foundation, which rewards researchers who try to reconcile science and religion.



• March 24, 2006: The 'big bang': More data and answers, but what about why?, by John Horgan.

  Originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, this oped argues that science may never understand fundamental questions about the origin of the universe.



• January 1, 2006: Einstein has Left the Building, by John Horgan.

  An essay from the New York Times Book Review, in which Horgan wonders if there will ever be another Einstein.