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The Tooth
I went to the most terrifying place in the world today: the dental clinic. I'd woken up this morning with a sharp pain under my right lower jaw
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The surprises
https://twitter.com/notrueindian/status/1021302944992407553 "Nature is Lovecraftian" … is it? The literature of H.P. Lovecraft in freaky, at odds with the more conventional, less morally degenerate
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'Black Panther' – Two thoughts
I watched Black Panther again today. Two things came to mind. First: When by the end of the film T'Challa and Wakanda realise that they can't
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Gallium's dance
A wide swath of fundamental physics and chemistry is defined by the pursuit of the ground state. Since we began elucidating the structure of the atom in the 1910s, much
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That monthly reminder…
(I can speak only for myself here) I certainly seem to be needing a monthly reminder that to focus on pure science as a journalist is not in any way
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The evolution of doubt
On Twitter today, @thattai published a short thread about how framing the 'debate' about cellphone radiation harming biological tissue between ionising and non-ionising radiation is not a good
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Asian winners of Beamline for Schools
There was an announcement from CERN on June 20 that I'd wanted to cover, missed it and which – to my zero surprise – no one else covered either. For
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The spectacle of Elon Musk coming undone
It isn’t tempting to write about Elon Musk in that it is easy but in that it is an event that few thought we could witness live: a successful
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Jio and let jio
I'm not fully convinced as to why everyone is currently bashing the Jio Institute up. When the 'Institutions of Eminence' scheme's rules were announced
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Right and reason
There's a video from Postcard News doing the rounds, showing a lady demonstrating the ability of a cow-urine-based substance to purportedly detoxify the human body. It does a
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Blazars and neutrinos
There was no post on July 11 because whatever I wrote on that day was for the article below. I couldn't share it on that day itself because
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The Soufflé
The most curious thing about moving to Delhi – little anxiety, lots of a seemingly deep-rooted melancholy that I will no longer have a scientist roommate. It was one of the
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Problem of plenty
The Higgs boson has finally been observed decaying into the particles it most often decays to – six years after it was discovered. The reason for this delay was noise. The
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Crack modelling
Fracture mechanics theory in college was never my forte, whether that was because it was taught by a particularly dull professor who thought he had a loud voice or because
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What it means to be green
The News Minute, July 6, 2018: Terracotta handicrafts and vessels, bamboo trinkets, organic grains, herbs and pulses up for sale. Children running around playing with natural stick and wheel toys