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My political views

Dec 27, 2025 4 min read

Daily writing promptHow have your political views changed over time? View all responses When I first had any views at all, I think I was in the second year of my engineering studies, in 2007, and de…

Four years

Jun 14, 2025 6 min read

Analysis Life notes Scicomm Science Air India Axiom Space Axiom-4 bourgeois science CP Snow engineering engineering education flight crash Indian Space Research Organisation International Atomic Energy Agency Israel-Iran conflict materialism MV Ramana Nick Chavez nuclear weapons science journalism SpaceX temporary expertise two cultures

Engineering as a methodology … contains a fundamentally materialist kernel, even if its present incarnation as a bourgeois science drives engineers to think and behave otherwise. — Nick Chavez, Engin…

'Poverty first, Mars next' is a non-idea

Apr 5, 2014 6 min read

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The government has mismanaged scientific research to the point of the people thinking its only goals are to alleviate poverty.…