Philip Ball

www.philipball.co.uk

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Author, writer and broadcaster, mostly about science. Books include The Music Instinct, Curiosity, Critical Mass, and the latest: The Modern Myths (2021).

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Article May 4, 2023

A New Theory for the Assembly of Life in the Universe | Quanta Magazine

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Video Jan 19, 2023

What is a mind? - with Philip Ball

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Article Jan 2, 2023

The big idea: could you have made different choices in life?

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Article 2023

Organisms as Agents of Evolution

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Tweet Dec 3, 2022

A recent exchange leaves me thinking about problems with how arguments are often conducted in science. I don’t know about you, but I quite often see people who I know to be very smart expressing or supporting scientific ideas that I suspect are fla

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Article Aug 8, 2022

DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be?

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Article Jun 18, 2022

The dangerous fallacy of sentient AI

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Article Nov 17, 2021

The chase for fusion energy

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Article Feb 21, 2021

After the Nobel, what next for Crispr gene-editing therapies?

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Book Mar 22, 2018

Beyond Weird

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Book Apr 5, 2016

Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does

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Book Jun 21, 2004

The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

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