Magic Universe: The Oxford guide to Modern Science

Nigel Calder has been a key figure in the popularisation of science for the best part of the last half‐century. Feeling, as I all too often do these days, too old and mentally decrepit to keep up with new developments, I am consoled by the fact that I used to read Calder's contributions in the New Scientist when I was still at school. The idea of continental drift, for example, had just caught on with my very advanced geography teacher then. I distinctly remember him, at some point in the mid or late 1950s, triumphantly waving a New Scientist article...