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Meet the demons: four mythical creatures that inhabit science

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By Robert P. Crease
| Physics World Verified
With their long, rich and varied history demons can tell us about both nature and thinking itself, says Robert P Crease Meet the family Demons come in four types: one-off, law-governed, instructional and place-holder. (iStock/ringo sono) Demons might be mythical, but for hundreds of years these imaginary creatures have been fantastically useful for thinking about science and the humanities. For physicists, the most famous demon was dreamed up by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867.
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What a modern-day US Declaration of Independence should say

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By Robert P. Crease
| Physics World Verified
As the US celebrates 250 years since its Declaration of Independence, Robert P Crease imagines how a modern-day version of it might read in the light of the Donald Trump’s attacks on science Anniversary action Has the Trump administration wrecked science so much that American citizens are now entitled – as the 1776 US Declaration of Independence allows – to alter or abolish the government?
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‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers’: how Alfred Tennyson drew science into his poetry

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By Robert P. Crease
| Physics World Verified
Robert P Crease reviews The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes Surrounded by science Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, in his library. Tennyson was well read on – and greatly inspired by – the science of his day. (Illustration by F Roberts from Great Men and Famous Women edited by Charles Horne, published by Selmar Hess, c.1900.
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