Stories by Philip Morrison

Five kinds of scientific inquiry, and the functioning of science in the U.S.

Photography from space; Helmholtz, Michelson and Morley; the history of mammals and man

Standards and fundamental constants, and early European voyages to North America

The depths of the ocean, how the idea of galaxies evolved and other matters

Books about science for the younger reader: an annual Christmas survey

Attitudes toward dying, the iridescence of animals and the work of G. I. Taylor

The biology of the elephant, the art of marine salvage and other matters

The role of reconnaissance satellites in the arms race

A compendium of cunous events reported by the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena

Archaeology as the meeting ground of the two cultures

Blood as a test of the basic principles of human relations

Encounters and conversations during the growth of quantum mechanics

How poliomyelitis was brought under control

A new biographical dictionary, kangaroos, sudden death in infants and other matters

The lessons (so far) of the moon samples

The early support of science in America, and old and new attempts at metrication

Population genetics particularly the human kind, and other matters

Antarctic ecology, air pollution, chemical fallout, bamboo, palm and microorganism

The history of technology, the velocity of light and the investigation of sleep

The realities of world agriculture: surveys by two concerned skeptics

Three lives in the palmy days of modern physics: Gamow, Fermi and Oppenheimer

Among other things, image tubes, the weather and the prevention of cancer

The contemporary smuggler, the history of the hydrogen bomb and other matters

The bodies in the bogs, marine partnerships and other topics