Developing Tamil Nadu
“If the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comes to power, it will ruin the developed State of Tamil Nadu” — Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said this in his address to a local conference organi…
populism
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Injustice ex machina
There are some things I think about but struggle to articulate, especially in the heat of an argument with a friend. Cory Doctorow succinctly captures one such idea here: Empiricism-washing is the to…
Ending 2019
This blog achieved multiple minor but personally enjoyable milestones in 2019: * It was read by people in 143 counties, the highest in a single year since 2008 (when I started blogging) * It was th…
Taking the ringdown route to understanding the humans of science
What follows is an attempt to process and understand Cassandra Willyard's post on Last Word on Nothing, about her preferring the humanised stories of science over the stories of the science itself…
On that 'Last Word on Nothing' post
A post published on the Last Word On Nothing blog yesterday has been creating quite the stir on Twitter. Excerpt: Physics writers, this is how you nab the physics haters — human emotion. You can expl…