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It began in late September 2022. I was just recovering from a severe case of COVID-19 when Hurricane Ian hit my hometown in southwest Florida. My wife and I evacuated to Miami for a week and watched ...

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the co-author with John Heilbron of Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (2024) ...

The science of our age is computational. Without models, simulations, statistical analysis, data storage and so on, our knowledge of the world would grow far more slowly. For decades, our fundamental ...

is a historian and writer based in the United Kingdom. He works on art and architecture, as well as housing and infrastructure policy. He writes Robinson Reckons, an eclectic Substack blog about ...

is a specialist in the early medieval Scandinavians and professor of archaeology at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, where he also directs the national Centre for the World in the Viking Age. He ...

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis programme.