I’m thrilled to announce that the Center for Science Writings is giving its 2010 Green Book Award to famed oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle for “The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One.” Earle will receive the award at Stevens...

My friend Bob Pollack, the ultimate two-cultures guy and director of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR), has invited me to give a talk this Thursday, December 10, on scientific attempts to explain religion....

Last Wednesday I brought Robert Wright to Stevens to talk about his book “The Evolution of God.” As I expected, Bob gave a terrific talk, which we hope to post on this website soon. Below I am posting my introduction to Bob at Stevens followed by...

How would you like to spend a couple of days talking about the meaning of life with scientific pundits like Margaret Wertheim, Bruno LaTour, Frijtof Capra, Robert Poole? Yes, I would too. That’s why I’m thrilled to be invited to “The Swiss...

“Any who says he understands quantum mechanics,” Niels Bohr once said, “doesn’t know the first thing about it.” Bohr, a Danish physicist who helped invent (discover?) quantum theory a century ago, presumably excluded himself from this...