Philip Ball

www.philipball.co.uk

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Author, writer and broadcaster, mostly about science. Books include The Music Instinct, Curiosity, Critical Mass, and the latest: The Modern Myths (2021).

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Book Feb 19, 2023

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

by Simon Schama

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Book Nov 16, 2021

In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems

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Article Jun 8, 2021

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

by Scott Aaronson

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1 mention by Philip Ball

Paper Feb 10, 2023

The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models

by Melanie Mitchell

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Book Jan 3, 2023

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

by Kevin Mitchell

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Article Mar 3, 2023

How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities

by Charlie Wood

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Article Mar 30, 2023

How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes

by Jake Buehler

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Book 2023

How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions―and the Art of Knowing When Not To

by Kit Yates

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Article Mar 14, 2023

Who is criticism for?

by Lola Seaton

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Book Nov 6, 2014

Schuman's Warning of the Nazi Destruction of the Jews

by David Heilbron Price

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