Why scientists should read more
The amount of communicative effort to describe the fact of a ball being thrown is vanishingly low. It's as simple as saying, "X threw the ball." It takes a bit more effort to describe ho…
communication
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Discussing some motivations behind a particle physics FAQ
Particle physics is in the middle of a quandary. Let's use it to catch up on all that we've missed.…
Slideshow: Mission Mars
The Americans had the skycrane and their seven minutes of hell. This is India's ultimate so-near-yet-so-far moment. The Mars Orbiter mission better work out.…
The post-reporter era II
When a print-publication decides to go online, it will face a set of problems that is wholly unique and excluded from the set of problems it will have faced before. Keeping in mind that such an organi…