Table Of Content

CONTRIBUTIONS NUMBER 1 Editorial Bernal’s Picasso Jack Harris Comment The useful arts lim Hunkin Comment Biology and bafflegab: dark versus bright words in the human sciences S. A. Barnett Royal Society discussion Science, technology, and social responsibility Wendy Barnaby Theology and the sciences John Habgood Can the energy market protect the environment? lan Fells Fibre composites: the weave of history Anthony Kelly Accessing nature’s inorganic secrets David E. Fenton Egypt in Rome — an introductory essay. I: Isis, obelisks, and the Isaeum Campense James Stevens Curl Book reviews “The governance of science’ Michael Gibbons ‘Science without laws’ and ‘Pandora’s hope: an essay on the reality of science studies’ John Ziman ‘Has feminism changed science?’ S. A. Barnett ‘Erasmus Darwin: a life of unequalled achievement’ Jonathan Smith ‘Speaking for myself’ Frank P. Davidson ‘Predictions: 30 great minds on the future’ Anthony R. Michaelis ‘Journey beyond Selene: remarkable expeditions to the solar system’s 63 moons’ Adrian Berry ‘Mapping time: the calendar and its history’ Lee Loev ingel ‘Metals and the Royal Society’ Robert Cahn ‘Carbon nanotubes and related structures ~ new materials for the twenty-first century’ SRIUA aG uelCOm tiem siti ineuce lerrones NUMBER Editorial India’s bomb and the democratic process Jack Harris Comment Depleted uranium Douglas eteenicee Comment A though style perspective on making decisions about technology Gustav Ostberg Governing science before it governs us Steve Fuller Intergroup agression: multi-individual organisms and the survival instinct N. C. Hughes-Jones Secessions, interventions, and the case of Kosovo Hugh Beach Extraterrestrial biophysics F. W. Taylor Egypt in Rome — an introductory essay. Il: The Villa Adriana and the beginnings of Egyptology James Stevens Curl Pisa goes critical J. B. Burland Risk assessment and structural integrity aspects of materials behaviour M. Burdekin Book reviews ‘A brief history of the future’, ‘Virtual states’, and Techgnosis’ Jim Burge ‘Internet ethics’ eTo ree merrliniin “The innovation war’ Anthony R. Michaelis ‘Achilles in the quantum universe. The definitive history of infinity’ Peter Trier ‘Bohm—Biederman correspondence’, Volume | F. David Peat ‘Sensory exotica: a world beyond human experience’ Richard Gregory ‘Ingenious pursuits — building the scientific revolution’ Alan Cook ‘Count Rumford. The extraordinary life of a scientific genius’ Patricia Rothman 162 NUMBER 3 Editorial War and peace Jack Harris Comment Sir Vivian Fuchs — in appreciation P. G. Law Comment The future of molecular medicine Jérg Klein Drug delivery systems S. S. Davis The future could be too much fun Susan Greenfield Might a laboratory experiment destroy planet earth? Francesco Calogero rhe effect of the telegraph on law and order, war, diplomacy, and power politics Laszlo Solymar Monster soup: the microscope and Victorian fantasy Ursula Seibold-Bultmann The mighty cashew Philip Blazdell Shifts in the world science centre: space—time characteristics and disciplinary analysis Liming Liang, Ye Feng, and Yishan Wu Book reviews ‘Science, technology and society in contemporary Japan’ Robert Cahn ‘Defenders of the truth’ Steve Fuller ‘Our cosmic future: humanity’s fate in the universe’ Lee Loevinger ‘Legal alchemy: the use and misuse of science in the law’ Lee Loevinger ‘Art and the brain’ John Nash _NUMBER 4 Editorial The sixth extinction Jack Harris 245 Comment Determining the line: mercy, justice, humility, and embryonic stem cells Lee S. Rayfield 250 Essay review The scientist as a poet George and Eva Klein Cosmology, creation, and the force of history J. D. North rhe political contexts of calendars Susan Drucker-Brown Poverty as a cause of wars? Morris Miller Research on human subjects, exploitation, and global principles of ethics John Harris The HIV/AIDS pandemic: human rights, societal, and developmental issues Kenneth Stuart Book reviews “Technological innovation as an evolutionary process’ Arnold Pacey ‘Meaning in technology’ AT Ale ‘Real science: what it is and what it means’ Mary Midgley ‘Israel and the bomb’ Robert Cahn ‘Pliny the Elder on science and technology’ Mary Beagon ‘Gout: the patrician malady’ Wendy Barnaby ‘Lucifer’s legacy: the meaning of asymmetry’ Henning Genz