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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 Higgs boson is a scalar bos…

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 it was just a dry subject. R…

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 mad…

Good fantasy fiction – rather simply fantasy fiction – is defined not by a freewheeling re-imagination of reality but one that is re-imagined as much as contained in a self-consistent, coherent and su…

I've been in Delhi for three days, and for the last two of which I've been house-hunting and then buried in office work. While I was trawling through dozens of Facebook posts and items on Magi…

I've made two mistakes – both concerning Orson Scott Card's quadrology and both nominal – in today's post, and which I have now rectified. I ask that you revisit/refresh that post to read…

I've missed writing my posts for three days straight. 🙈 I don't know about you but I've certainly let myself down. I have a trove of excuses but I'm sure none of them qualify. Today…

In the middle of a conversation this morning, my friend wondered aloud as to whether there were any advantages to teaching history forward in time (i.e. with causality) instead of backward. Neither of…

I started writing this as today's post but at some point it morphed into an article for The Wire, to be published tomorrow morning. Sharing it here in full nonetheless. Earlier this week, a team…

These days, I can't remember either the good news or the bad news. When someone talks about the good news – likely a centrist or someone who hasn't thought their political views through – I no…

There's a new book by Alan Lightman out, titled Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine. Irrespective of others' appreciation of it, I expect to find the book preposterously dull if Michael…

Climate change is gradually turning the abundance of space into privilege, at least if it already wasn't before. In a warmer world, in which we will surely prize the efficient use of resources, p…