Sam Kean, Author at The American Scholar

Sam Kean

Sam Kean is the author of seven science books, including Dinner With King Tut, The Disappearing Spoon and The Icepick Surgeon.

Things Periodic and Elemental

By Sam Kean | Monday June 24, 2013

Master Masticator

By Sam Kean | Monday June 24, 2013

Science, Right and Wrong

The evolution of knowledge

By Sam Kean | Monday June 3, 2013

A Shroud of Doubt

By Sam Kean | Thursday March 21, 2013

Being Human

By Sam Kean | Monday March 18, 2013

Bon Appétit

By Sam Kean | Thursday March 14, 2013

Leaf It to a Physicist

By Sam Kean | Thursday March 14, 2013

Fields Apart

Physics, past and future

By Sam Kean | Wednesday November 30, 2011

Math & Magic

The roots of Western science

By Sam Kean | Wednesday March 2, 2011

God on the Syllabus

By Sam Kean | Tuesday September 2, 2025

All Talk

By Sam Kean | Thursday January 30, 2025

We Are the Borg

By Sam Kean | Friday August 16, 2024

Thought Experimenter

By Sam Kean | Monday April 1, 2024

Don’t Forget Intuition

By Sam Kean | Thursday June 1, 2023

Subatomic Inspiration

By Sam Kean | Wednesday June 1, 2022

Order Amid Chaos

By Sam Kean | Monday February 15, 2021

Kean: Galileo on trail at the Inquisition

Heaven and the Heretic

By Sam Kean | Monday March 2, 2020

An Even Greater Beyond

By Sam Kean | Thursday February 22, 2018

Sisters of the Night Sky

By Sam Kean | Monday December 5, 2016

May 6, 2026

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