String theory and reconciliations
According to particle physics, the fundamental building blocks of the universe are point-like particles, essentially small dots of energy with no dimension. String theory posits that these dots are ac…
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According to particle physics, the fundamental building blocks of the universe are point-like particles, essentially small dots of energy with no dimension. String theory posits that these dots are ac…
From Carl Bergstrom's Twitter thread about a new book called How Irrationality Created Modern Science, by Michael Strevens: The Iron Rule from the book is, in Bergstrom's retelling, "n…
A couple weeks ago, some students from a university in South India got in touch to ask a few questions about my job and about science communication. The correspondence was entirely over email, and I…
I wrote the following post while listening to this track. Perhaps you will enjoy reading it to the same sounds. Otherwise, please consider it a whimsical recommendation. :) I should really start keep…
How much do we not know about what Indian researchers are doing simply because Western scientists haven't written to some of them?…
Science can often be complicated to deal with and benefit from a journalist's gaze – but it must be accompanied, if not preceded, by science communication.…
The 2015 Indian Science Congress is set to begin on January 2, hosted by the Mumbai University. This prestigious event - modeled after the British Association for the Advancement of Science - sees Ind…