In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

As we journey backward through the portals of time, long before the birthing of modern scientific thought, it becomes increasingly difficult to locate women whose contributions were noteworthy. One ...

Two and a half years ago, shortly after turning 18, Olivia Ding packed two suitcases and took a 12-hour plane ride to a new life. “I grew up in China,” said Ding, a member of William & Mary’s Class of ...

One of the things that inspires me to do the Voices of VR podcast is being able to talk with hundreds of people listening for the underlying patterns of experiential design. VR & AR are reflections of ...

THE year 1867 will long be remembered by natural philosophers as that of the publication of the first volume of “Thomson and Tait.” They had long been waiting for the book, and in the preface the ...

WE opened this new and revised edition of Mrs. Marcet's “Conversations on Natural Philosophy” with expectation and interest; we closed it with disappointment and regret. The influence Mrs. Marcet ...

It doesn’t appear that anybody has noticed yet, but 2021 marks a rather important anniversary in the history of science and western civilization. It was 2,500 years ago this year that a philosopher ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, the major publication of the American Philosophical ...