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Weinberg writes fascinating stuff because he’s a very bright guy who is now wandering into areas far from his home turf; and he’s looking at the new territory with all the wide-eyed wonder (and insight) of a newcomer who hasn’t yet learned the received wisdom. A great example is his recent NYRB essay on weapons and glory, in which he turns upside down the insight we all grew up with, that the stirrup was a great technological advance in the conduct of warfare.
See Steven Weinberg, “A Designer Universe?,” at
http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_weinberg.cfm