On pomegranate seeds as models of identity formation.
physics
Fearsome Engines
Physics engines rule video games.
Layers of Physics
How one particle physicist learned not to know.
Seeing is Believing: Constructing the Higgs Boson
The Higgs boson isn’t really a ‘thing’ in the way that a non-particle physicist might understand the term. How do physicists ‘see’ it, and how do they negotiate its public image?
Visions of The Lone Scientific Genius
What the phenomenon of simultaneous discovery can tell us about how we mythologize
our lone scientific visionaries in hindsight.
Conversations with Evelyn Fox Keller
Crossing disciplinary boundaries, from physics to biology to philosophy of science.