On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams
One brilliant madwoman’s quest to show that the Bard’s works were secretly penned by the father of science, at war with his own creation
Why Claude Lévi-Strauss celebrated every culture but his own
On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer
Collection | Spring 2008
Spring 2008
On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb
How the man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers
How a cerebral hedonist became a scientific hero
James D. Watson’s unfinished quest to master genetic destiny
