Words

Scientists have to struggle with words that don't fit reality.

How do writing systems such as China's deal with the twenty-first century?

An anthropologist's unwitting gift to literature.

Biologists must take responsibility for the correct use of language in genetics.

Scientific knowledge is enriched as it moves between languages.

One writer's vision of a technological utopia has stood the test of time.

Science supplies poetry with a register of words outside common usage.

The social structures of science were invented to cope with an explosion of printed information.