This issue investigates how physicists are trying to predict the dynamics of shifting opinions using laws that describe the physical world. Plus, biomass energy – green or dirty? Is this renewable energy source really as green as we first thought? Also, a look at the secret of synchronized pendulums, and a review of the documentary on Agustina Ruiz Dupont: the greatest physicist you’ve never heard of.
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