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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

Here it is, hot off the press at Nature.com [nature.com], a respectable journal of science and reason.

LikeWar

P. W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2019)

As reports on politics and war flood social media, the medium itself is becoming weaponized: virality is valued over veracity. If you’re online, you inadvertently become part of the war. Warning that ‘you are what you share’, defence specialists P. W. Singer and Emerson Brooking explore the real-world and online geopolitical impacts of this conflict, and how to prepare ourselves for the next unprecedented threat.

Singer has done some very good work in the past, particularly on Mercenaries, so this might be good.

Wizards, Aliens and Starships

Charles L. Adler Princeton Univ. Press (2019)

Physicist Charles Adler tracks his own field and maths through science-fiction tropes to separate the plausible from the impossible. The shape-shifting transfiguration spells in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, for instance, pose problems related to conservation of mass.

Not so sure about this one. Where are the Starship Trumpers?

Not All Dead White Men

Donna Zuckerberg Harvard Univ. Press (2019)

With the proliferation of anti-feminist rhetoric online, the extreme right is using ancient philosophy to boost its credibility. As Stoic ethics moves from lecture halls to Reddit, classicist Donna Zuckerberg exposes this misappropriation, meant to enforce the concept of male superiority.

I have submitted numerous submission on this Zuckerberg, who seems sane, in the past. About time SoylentNews covered her on the front page. We are all Classicists here, are we not?

OK, there are many more good suggestions in this article, but we must cover the title inspiration:

Physics and Dance

Emily Coates & Sarah Demers Yale Univ. Press (2019)

New York City Ballet dancer Emily Coates and CERN physicist Sarah Demers interweave science and choreographic research in this unique study. That fusion, they show, can enrich understanding of both fields. An insightful pas de deux between physics and ballet.

Don't know about other Soylentils, but that is what I want, an "insightful pas de deux between physics and ballet". Check out the entire list!

[I seem to have triggered janrinok again. Not sure how he will respond to a submission in English. Bit of help from the other Eds? #Freearistarchus!!!1!]

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