Science Sketches: The Universe from Different Angles

✍ Scribed by Sidney Perkowitz

• Publisher: Jenny Stanford Pub
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is the second collection of over 50 articles and essays authored by Sidney Perkowitz. Appearing in diverse outlets such as Discover, Washington Post, Aeon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nautilus, Museum of the Moving Image, and Physics World, they represent the best of his writing about science and technology, and their links to culture and society, the arts and the media, and the humanities. Written for general readers, the pieces explore the outer and inner universes from cosmic space to the human mind, from the artistic use of science to the impact of technology and AI in the justice system, in medicine, and in dealing with COVID-19.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface: The Universe from Different Angles
Acknowledgment
List of Illustrations
Looking at Nature Without and Within
Introduction
The invisible universe
How to See the Invisible Universe
Heat Wave
Mood Indigo
Black holes, quanta, and gravity
A Supermassive Lens on the Constants of Nature
The Most Popular Physics Meme Ever
Can Space Experiments Solve the Puzzle of Quantum Gravity?
Small Wonders
The Quantum Random Number Generator
Observing our Earth
Sunlight, Life, and Time
Flash!
We and the Earth Breathe Together
Peering inside the body and the mind
The Better to See You With
The Power of Crossed Brain Wires
Can Zapping Your Brain Really Make You Smarter?
Doing the Math
Introduction
A Short Take on Mathematics
The Poetry and Prose of Math: Part 1, Poetry
The Poetry and Prose of Math: Part 2, Prose
Infinity on Screen
Four Scientists and a Quest
Introduction
Galileo Through a Lens
The Shadow of Enlightenment
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Romancing the Quantum
Technology in Society
Introduction
Technology: past, present, and future
Most Tech Today Would be Frivolous to Ancient Scientists
Sociophysics and Econophysics, the Future of Social Science?
When Houses Grow on Trees
Robots, AI, and synthetic life
Representing Robots
Frankenstein and Synthetic Life
Intelligent Machines
Is technology neutral?
Confronting the Wall
Bad Blood, Worse Ethics
The Bias in the Machine
Technology and warfare
The War Science Waged
From Terminator to Black Mirror
Radiations
Police technology
The Physics of Blood Spatter
From the Lab to the Courtroom
Science, Fiction, and Art
Introduction
Science and art change each other
The Art of Falling Fluid
Light in the Woods
Paint it Nanoblack
Physics and Art in 2½ D
Altered States
Imagining the pandemic
Panic in the Streets
Only Disconnect!
Documenting science onscreen
The Chemical Formula
Getting the Film Physics Right
Facing Up to Facial Recognition
Sunday is Maro
Science Cinema Online
Fictional science and science fiction
Aliens
Trapped on Mars
Science Advances and Science Fiction Keeps Up
Entropy and the End of the World in Tenet
Books about science for general readers by Sidney Perkowitz
Republishing credits
Index