Timothy Ferris is Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book, The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature, was published in February. (March 2010)
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A Hero of Science, After All
March 25, 2010
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up
by K.C. Cole, with a foreword by Murray Gell-Mann
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Stumbling into Space
April 29, 2004
Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report
www.caib.us/news/report
Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age
by Greg Klerkx
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The Gentleman Scientist
March 27, 2003
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
by Jennet Conant
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Some Like It Hot
September 25, 1997
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin
Imagined Worlds: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures by Freeman Dyson
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On the Edge of Chaos
September 21, 1995
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and Complex
by Murray Gell-Mann
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The Case Against Science
May 13, 1993
Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man by Brian Appleyard