Adam Frank
Stories
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'A Marvelous Life' Holds Stan Lee High As The Man Who Made Superheroes Matter
Danny Fingeroth spends some time unpacking Lee's long-running dispute with Jack Kirby and others over ownership, but mainly offers strong insights into the forces that drove Lee and Marvel to success.
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'Einstein's Unfinished Revolution' Looks At The Quantum-Physics-And-Reality Problem
A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, no one is sure what it is telling us about the nature of reality — and Lee Smolin's book adds to a stream of excellent works on the topic.
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Here's Why Some Mess Is Not Always A Bad Thing
Does mess drive you nuts? Astrophysicist Adam Frank says to think of it as showing off — all proteins need mess to do their own work.
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New Climate Books Stress We Are Already Far Down The Road To A Different Earth
David Wallace-Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth and Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth offer valuable perspectives on climate change — if we're committed to being adult enough to face the future.