Essays on: science

The Softening of Iron - The Qur'an says iron was sent down. I stopped on the verb, and what it opened up was metal from asteroids, iron locked in stone, and the work of making it usable.
The Camel and the Unicorn - The business world's favourite animal does not exist. The Qur'an points at one that does - and asks, with some impatience, whether we have ever really looked.
A Generalist in an Age of Specialists - The polymath is not a show-off with too many library cards. Breadth is a duty of custodianship - you cannot keep an estate you refuse to walk.