From LRB, a review of The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers by Frank Wilczek. An interview with David Bainbridge on accessible science. A review of What's Wrong With Science? Towards a People's Rational Science of Delight and Compassion by Nicholas Maxwell. The Genesis 2.0 Project: Compared with the market-driven, killer-app insta-culture of the Digital Age, the new Large Hadron Collider exists in a near-magical realm, a $9 billion cathedral of science that is apparently, in any practical sense, useless (and more). Mind over matter: Keeping a place for thought experiments in an empirical age. A review of Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal by Heather Douglas. From The Scientist, ill-judged predictions and projections can be embarrassing at best and, at worst, damaging to the authority of science and science policy. Chris Mooney and Michael Specter debate science, anti-science and Denialism (and more and more). From Skeptic, a special issue on Carl Sagan. From Popular Science, a look at the Best of What's New 2009. David Brown on what’s wrong (and right) with science journalism. The science behind superheroes: They use their extraordinary powers to battle crime and save lives — and a sprinkling of science behind their abilities. An interview with James Kakalios, author of The Physics of Superheroes. Norman Levitt reviews Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara. Here are six radical projects that will change science forever. A review of The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (with essays inspired by Microsoft’s Jim Gray).
