Philosophy of science
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PodcastBook Club – Superior: The Return of Race Science
How different from each other are we all really? Angela Saini looks at the issues, claims and evidence behind race science
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PodcastBook Club – The Periodic Table
100 years on, we examine the effect of Primo Levi’s masterpiece The Periodic Table
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FeaturePrimo Levi and the other periodic table
Author and chemist Primo Levi was born 100 years ago this July. Philip Ball looks at his chemical and literary legacy – including his books The Periodic Table and If This Is a Man
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ReviewThe Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Drew Gwilliams reviews a book about how science should work, and what happens when it all goes wrong
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PodcastBook Club – Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman explores the strange, complex and downright confusing world of superheavy elements
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SponsoredDriving discovery through debate
Celebrating more than a century of the Faraday Discussions
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OpinionIt's complicated
In a complex world, binary answers are often requested but rarely sufficient
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PodcastBook Club – Clearing the air
Tim Smedley travels the world to work out why air pollution occurs, and what we can do to solve the problem
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PodcastBook Club – The truth about fat
‘Angry chef’ Anthony Warner wants you to understand why people really get fat and how society tricks us into blaming each other
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OpinionHave you had enough of the periodic table yet?
There are enough ways to organise the elements to suit everyone’s taste