Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams
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Website for Joel and Nancy's book View from the
Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (Riverhead/Penguin,
2006; HarperCollins, 2006; foreign editions, 2008-): http://viewfromthecenter.com
Website for Nancy and Joel's book The New Universe
and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World
(Yale University Press, 2011): http://new-universe.org
Nancy Ellen Abrams' music, writing, and speaking website: http://nancyellenabrams.com
Joel Primack's UCSC website: http://scipp.ucsc.edu/personnel/profiles/primack.html
Papers and Articles on Cosmology and Culture
"Cosmology
and 21st Century Culture" (invited essay for Science's Compass), by Nancy
Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack, Science, 293, 1769-1770 (7 September 2001).
link to article: html PDF
"Cosmic Questions: An
Introduction,"
by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, in Annals of the New York Academy of
Sciences, vol 950, proceedings of the conference
"Cosmic Questions" sponsored by the AAAS Program of Dialogue on
Science, Ethics and Religion, held April 14-16, 1999 at the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.
link to article html PDF link
to CD-ROM
"Gravity, the Ultimate Capitalist Principle," by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams Invited article for 15th anniversary issue of Tikkun magazine, Tikkun 16 (5), 59-61 (Sept/Oct 2001). link to article: html PDF
"Scientific Revolutions in
Cosmology: Overthrowing vs. Encompassing," by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel
R. Primack, Philosophy
in Science, Vol. 9, pp. 75-96 (Tucson: Pachart
Publishing House, 2001).
link to article: html PDF
"Einstein's
Idea of God," by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack, in God for the 21st Century, ed. Russell Stannard (Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2000).
link to article: html PDF
"Cosmology and Culture," by
Joel R. Primack, Center
for Theology and the Natural Sciences Bulletin 17(3), pp. 9-15 (Summer 1997).
link to article: html
"In A Beginning... Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah," by
Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, Tikkun 10 (1), 66-73 (Jan/Feb1995).
Reprinted in NAMTA Journal (North American Montessori Teachers Association),
vol. 25, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp 138-154.
link
to article: html PDF
Articles and Interviews on Space Debris and Space Policy
"Night Life" Joel Primack
interview with Sarah Reed, BBC Sky at Night January 2007, p. 106. link
to article: PDF
"Debris
and Future Space Activities," by Joel R. Primack. Invited talk by Joel R. Primack at Conference on Future
Security in Space, at New Place (near Southampton, England) on
May 28-29, organized by the Monterey Institute of International Studies Center
for Nonproliferation Studies and by the University of Southampton's
Mountbatten Centre.
link to article: PDF link
to Powerpoint: PDF
"Star Wars Forever" by Joel
R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, Astronomy Now, June 2002, p. 90.
link to article: PDF
"Star Wars Forever" by
Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams. Invited talk by Joel R. Primack at
Conference on Science and the Search for Meaning, April 19, UNESCO
Headquarters, Paris.
link
to article: PDF
Articles on Science and Technology Advice
"Scientific Mediation and Technology Policy Convergence," by Joel R. Primack and Nancy E. Abrams, in Science and Technology Advice to the President, Congress, and the Judiciary, edited by William T. Golden (Pergamon Press, 1988; 2nd edition, AAAS, 1993), pp. 275-279. PDF
"The
Public and Technological Decisions," by Nancy E. Abrams and Joel R.
Primack, Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists 36 (6), 44-48 (June 1980).
PDF
"Helping the Public Decide,"
by Nancy E. Abrams and Joel R. Primack, Environment 22 (3), 14-20, 39-40 (April 1980).
PDF
"Nuclear Politics in Sweden,"
by Nancy E. Abrams, Environment 21 (4), 6-11, 39-40 (May 1979). PDF
"Mediation: a better alternative
to science courts," by Nancy Ellen Abrams and R. Stephen Berry, Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists 33 (4), 50-53 (April 1977). PDF
Talks
"The Congressional Science Fellowship Program and Other Efforts to Improve Decisionmaking on Technology," invited talk at the Carnegie Institution conference in May 2004 celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Congressional Science and Technology Fellowship Program, published in the Proceedings (AAAS, 2005). PDF
"Nuclear Waste Disposal: An
Independent View of the Big Picture and a Proposal for CARD," by Nancy E.
Abrams, at the 1998 conference of Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive
Dumping, Carlsbad, NM. PDF
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