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Michael Hanlon's 10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet), now available in paperback, presents serious enquiries into matters such as the nature of time, the sentience of animals, the essence of self and the composition of the universe.

Hanlon is a witty writer who takes esoteric science and makes it both intelligible and entertaining. However, 10 Questions [...]

Among the countless achievements of Isaac Newton, any number of which would have made him a houseold name on their own, his articulation of the force of gravity in the late 17th century surely ranks near the top. The legend of Newton's inspiration coming from a falling apple is often dismissed as apocryphal, but the [...]

Seen a moose in suburbia? In Massachusetts, just call LART – the large animal response team. Urban ecologist Stephen DeStefano's day job routinely involves man-handling moose – and deer, beavers and bears – that have ventured into territory now claimed by humans.

 
DeStefano's fear is that as the human population continues to rise, land once available [...]

Chad Orzel's German shepherd, Emmy, trots up, demanding to know where her bone is. "I have no idea where your bone is," Orzel says, "but I can tell you exactly how fast it's moving."

The joke refers to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which says that the less precisely we know a particle's position, the more accurately we [...]

Robert Altman once engaged in a jokey contest to create fake country-music song titles. He made up one that perfectly encapsulated his career: “I’m Swimming Through the Ashes of All the Bridges I’ve Burned.” …

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Mitchell Zuckoff

ROBERT ALTMAN
The Oral Biography
 

By Mitchell Zuckoff
Illustrated. 560 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $35.

 
… Those words reflect his withering [...]

The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
by Alison Gopnik. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that far from being irrational and limited in their ability to think, babies are smarter, more imaginative and more conscious [...]

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Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung by Arthur I. Miller
Published by: W. W. Norton (published in the UK in June)
Price: $27.95/£18.99
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ON THE surface, Arthur I. Miller’s latest book is a joint biography of two great minds of the 20th century: quantum physics pioneer Wolfgang Pauli and psychoanalysis [...]