Stories by Philip Morrison

J. Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man," and some playful aspects of the scientific life

Geomythology (including Velikovsky) and the energetic history of the U.S.

The social study of science and scientists, communication satellites and earthworms

The functions of sleep, microbes old and new and the art of workmanship

The vicissitudes of building stones and the nature of biological clocks

Military construction as a thelne in modern architecture, and the computer as Kon-Tiki

Humboldt deserved haring so many things named after him

On Great Zimbabwe, the massive stone ruin that recalls a little-known African culture

Are flies really guilty of spreading disease?

Mars, both real and romantic, and the principles of cosmetics

The two faces of quantum mechanics: the metaphysical and the quantitative

A guide to modern optical technology and a survey of the near-science of hypnosis

Yukawa's reflections on life and science, Szilard's papers and a tribute to Dirac

The irrational uses of rational science, tropical monocot crops and bottled gases

The failed mlSSlon of Apollo 13, African social predators and the forms of clouds

The man who named the plants and animals, and two studies of glaciers and their geolofy

The evolution of the computer, a new life of Einstein and pioneers of cosmography

George Ellery Hale: promoter of American astronomy and counsel to the Government

The locust, artificial cells, domestication and how to get pictures made by satellite

Mitchell Wilson's conversations with scientists around the world

Among other things, insect societies, starvation and the late M. C. Escher

The eye-brain, hovercraft and hydrofoils, 600-m.p.h. automobiles and other matters

Scratches on a Paleolithic eagle bone may be the first calendrical notation

War from the air, Newton's Principia, the wrapping of a cliff and other topics