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While I don’t claim to offer an overarching view of science, I stress the connections of the approaches as well as of the solutions. Temperature is the thread.

Gino Segre • A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and U niverse

I’m taking a different path, using the measurement of temperature as a guide in exploring many aspects of science.

Gino Segre • A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and U niverse

non-equilibrium physics).

Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity

A great unifying theme among particle physicists has been the role of symmetry and conservation laws in bringing order to the subatomic zoo.

Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

ENTROPY: The Greatest Blunder in the History of science

Arieh Ben-Naim

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Richard P. Feynman, “What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character” (1989)

Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory

Thomas Gold was a professor of astrophysics at Cornell University and one of the most interesting scientists of the 20th century. He had a notable penchant for diving into completely new fields and developing hypotheses utterly at odds with the scientific consensus of the day. His many achievements include correcting the understanding of how the hu... See more

Doomberg • The Other Strategic Reserve

Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

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We have been seeking a Mendeléev-type chart for the new particles. One such chart of the new particles was made independently by Gell-Mann in the USA and Nishijima in Japan. The basis of their classification is a new number, like the electric charge, which can be assigned to each particle, called its “strangeness,” S. This number is conserved, like