The author of Pythagoras' Trousers explores the changing concepts of both physical space and spiritual space from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet

Computers & Technology

Wertheim, Margaret

Computer Science

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion--and the implications for both sexes. Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Wertheim shows, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated activity; she argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise. Pythagoras' Trousers is a highly original history of one of science's most powerful disciplines. It is also a passionate argument for the need to involve both women and men in the process of shaping the technologies from the next generation of physicists.

Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

W.W.Norton&Company

Cyberspace may seem an unlikely gateway for the soul. But as science commentator Margaret Wertheim argues in this "marvelously provocative" (Kirkus Reviews) book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Wertheim explores the mapping of spiritual desire onto digitized space and suggests that the modem today has become a metaphysical escape-hatch from a materialism that many people find increasingly dissatisfying. Cyberspace opens up a collective space beyond the laws of physics--a space where mind rather than matter reigns. This strange refuge returns us to an almost medieval dualism between a physical space of body and an immaterial space of mind and psyche.

Networking & Cloud Computing

This issue of 'Antennae' explores the rise of interest in art and science collaborations. Partly because of the resonance of the posthuman cyborg in the ontological turn; because of the rise of Bio Art; because of the prominence that multidisciplinarity has acquired in academia; and surely in light of our fraught relationship with our environment and climate change, the intersections between art and science have recently become more complexly de ned by new ethical, political, aesthetic, and poetic registers.This project is co-edited in collaboration with American artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats whose bold experiments have raise serious questions and put into practice his conviction that the world needs more “curious amateurs,” willing to explore publicly whatever intrigues them in de ance of a culture that increasingly forecloses on wonder and silos knowledge into narrowly defined areas of expertise.

Antennae #47 Experiment

Science & Math

Keats, Jonathon

Nature & Ecology

Antennaeproject

For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy and gravity that he demonstrates with experiments in his backyard,-with garbage cans and a disco fog machine he makes smoke rings to test his ideas about atoms. Captivated by the imaginative power of his theories and his resolutely DIY attitude, Wertheim has been following Carter's progress for the past decade.
Centuries ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's exploration of the bizarre world of fringe physics challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for.

Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Walker Books

In 1993, Jim Carter, a trailer park owner in Enumclaw, Washington, sent out to a select group of scientists a letter announcing the publication of a book in which he proposed a complete alternative theory of physics. Gravity and matter, the periodic table, and the creation of the universe-all these Carter explained through wildly creative ideas perfected through backyard experiments using garbage cans and a disco fog machine to make giant smoke rings. 
For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of Jim Carter and other mavericks and outsiders who invent alternate theories of the universe. By considering the motivations behind their do-it-yourself theories and homemade experiments, Wertheim raises the question of what role an amateur can play in relationship to science. Deeply human, literally fantastical, infused with wit and humor, Physics on the Fringe challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for.

Physics

Bloomsbury Publishing

This astute social and cultural history of physics explores how the development of physics has been intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community, the science itself, and the picture of reality it portrays.

Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars

Crown

Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet

Transworld Pub

In Classroom Conversations, two generations of educators—a mother and daughter—point us to the great thinkers who have shaped their beliefs and practices in education, and who continue to influence teachers today. Nineteen essays by educators from Dewey to Delpit offer parents and new educators an education degree in a nutshell. The Milettas frame these touchstone texts with commentary explaining why these writers resonate for them, sharing not only the personal meanings they have derived from the selections but why these writings have endured in the field over time. Brief biographies set each author in context for the lay reader. As educational fads and jargon come and go, parents and teachers alike will appreciate and find value in the wisdom distilled here. Classroom Conversations will help experienced teachers find renewed meaning in these seminal essays and will help younger teachers discover just how important the work they do can be. For parents, the book will inform and enrich their understanding of their children’s educational experience. Contributors: 
<ul>
<li>Cynthia Ballenger </li>
<li>Brian Cambourne </li>
<li>Patricia Carini </li>
<li>Christopher Clark </li>
<li>Lisa Delpit </li>
<li>John Dewey </li>
<li>Eleanor Duckworth </li>
<li>Joseph Featherstone </li>
<li>Maxine Greene </li>
<li>David Hansen </li>
<li>Diana Hess </li>
<li>Gloria Ladson-Billings </li>
<li>Peggy Macintosh </li>
<li>Loris Malaguzzi </li>
<li>Sonia Nieto </li>
<li>Vivian Gussin Paley </li>
<li>Caroline Pratt </li>
<li>Carla Rinaldi </li>
<li>Sylvia Ashton Warner</li> </ul>

An "immensely accessible tour (which tells) how the physics lab became another Vatican with a no-girls-allowed sign on its door" (Susan Faludi) this spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise.

PYTHAGORAS' TROUSERS God, Physics, and the Gender Wars

Fourth Estate

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The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet

Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War

The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet

Antennae #47 Experiment

Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything

Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything

Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars

Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet

The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet

PYTHAGORAS' TROUSERS God, Physics, and the Gender Wars