A battery of power
Lithium ion batteries have found increasing usage in recent times, finding use in everything from portable electronics to heavy transportation. While they have their own set of problems, they’re not u…
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Hello and welcome to my personal blog. I'm a science reporter and blogger at The Hindu, an Indian national daily. I'm interested in high-energy physics, the history and philosophy of science,…
A closet of hidden phenomena
Science has been rarely counter-intuitive to our understanding of reality, and its elegant rationalism at every step of the way has been reassuring. This is why Bell’s theorem has been one of the stra…
On bad films and their purpose
The reason there are these movies that are adapted from books and don't do well at the box office is that there are many people who haven't read those books. Even though it's reasonable th…
Can science and philosophy mix constructively?
Quantum mechanics can sometimes be very hard to understand, so much so that even thinking about it becomes difficult. This could be because its foundations lay in the action-centric depiction of reali…
Can science and philosophy mix constructively?
Quantum mechanics can sometimes be very hard to understand, so much so that even thinking about it becomes difficult. This could be because its foundations lay in the action-centric depiction of reali…
Bitcoins and the landscape of internet commerce
In a previous post, I'd laid out the technical details of what goes into mining and transacting with bitcoins (BTC). My original idea was to talk about why they are an important invention, but als…
Trying to understand bitcoins
In a 2008 paper, a Japanese programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, introduced an alternate form of currency that he called bitcoins. His justifications were the problems plaguing contemporary digital commerce.…
Bohr and the breakaway from classical mechanics
One hundred years ago, Niels Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, where electrons go around a nucleus at the center like planets in the Solar System. The model and its implications brought a lot…
Bohr and the breakaway from classical mechanics
One hundred years ago, Niels Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, where electrons go around a nucleus at the centre like planets in the Solar System. The model and its implications brought a lot…
The Last Temptation
Today, I bought The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis. When I handed the Rs. 450 it cost over at the counter, it was a significant moment for me because for the last three years, after my reading h…
Choices.
The Verge paid Paul Miller to stay away from the internet for a year. We have this urge to think of the internet as something that wasn't produced by human agency, like an alien sewerage network…