Karoliina Pulkkinen

Philip Ball. The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery. 224 pp., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. $35 (cloth); ISBN 9780226775951. E-book available.

To date, values are not widely acknowledged or discussed within physical climate science. Yet, effective management of values in physical climate science is required for the benefit of both science and society. The recently published Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC acknowledges that values play a role in the construction of climate change information.

Karoliina Pulkkinen explores the virtual space inhabited by VRChat Virtual reality could become a tool for bringing people together in unexpected waysMaurizio Pesce by Karoliina Pulkkinen In the uncanny valley, realistic becomes borderline creepy. But we have a new valley now. In contrast to their uncanny cousin, the inhabitants of the new geographic formations don’t look eerily familiar. They are anime goddesses, buff eggplants, and warrior pigeons distinctly different from us.