Stories by Philip Morrison

The blowfly as a machine, the wild boy of A veyron and modern merchant ships

The deadly flu epidemic of 1918 and the subtle discipline of lakes

The scientific and public life of P. M. S. Blackett, the folktale and other matters

Professor Harlan's argument extended, cancer risks and the life and work of L. S. B. Leakey

Snack-food factories, biological energy, the new universe and Newton's alchemy

American instrument makers early and late, and the art of piloting the big jet airplanes

Wounds, mites, Eadweard Muybridge, machine disasters and ancient Greece viewed from the air

Among other things, the useful tracks made in solids by energetic particles

The importance of honey; early concepts of probability, and animal architecture

The lost lore of pre-Columbian America, and an artist's vision of Galileo's period.

Uri Geller: international Pied Piper of the credulous, and other matters

Precision production instruments, Gypsies and natural catastrophes

The double helix, trilobites, infrared detectors and plant chemical products

A calculus of children, a national atlas, Gustave Eiffel's tower and other matters

Newton's theology: an effort to study the universe through biblical exegesis

Illusion: a clue to how the visual system interprets the stochastic rain of photons

Other conceptions of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

The Mound People of Denmark, aristocratic Bronze Age predecessors of the Bog People

World arms in a period when the tactical balance is shifting in favor of the defense

A vision of an architecture that is not only visually pleasing but also humane

A kit that re-creates the ancient astrolabe; other aids for the navigator and stargazer

The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, its coral and Captain Cook, who discovered it

The background light of the night sky and the architecture of the pyramids

About the world of crude oil, and how to make an atomic bomb in the cellar