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Science Past from the issue of February 27, 1960

HUMAN SPIES FOR RUSSIA CHEAPER THAN SATELLITES — It would be cheaper for Russia to spy on the U.S. through normal channels than by putting a reconnaissance satellite into orbit…. Russian agents in the U.S. can glean vast amounts of solid information merely by reading several major metropolitan daily newspapers…. The Department of Defense thus […]

Book Review: The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam

Review by Erika Engelhaupt.

Book Review: Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth by Randi Hutter Epstein

Review by Kristina Bartlett Brody.

Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method by Niccolò Guicciardini

A science historian analyzes Newton’s philosophy of mathematics.