
The Universe as It Really Is: Earth, Space, Matter, and Time
In the years before his death in 2017, Thomas Scott ’66 was dean of the College of Sciences at San Diego State and host of a syndicated science show produced by his local public radio station. That science-for-the-layman attitude is found in The Universe as It Really Is, an accessible, wide-ranging primer on the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, atmospheric science, astronomy, and much more.

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The Latest Issue
October 2025
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott ’92; President Eisgruber ’83 defends higher ed; Julia Ioffe ’05 explains Russia.
