Skip to content

Root Privileges

Science, scicomm & scepticism
Main navigation
  • About
  • Archives
  • Thanks
  • Definitions
  • Axioms
  • Work
    • 2012
    • 2013
    • 2014
    • 2015
    • 2016
    • 2017
    • 2018
    • 2019
    • 2020
    • 2021
    • 2022
  • Random Post

What the bitcoin price drop reveals about ‘crypto’

a cryptocurrency flowchart
R R Read More

One of the definitive downsides of cryptocurrencies raised its head this week when the nosediving price of bitcoin […]

June 19, 2022 Analysis

How do you measure peacefulness?

monochrome photo of resist signage
R R Read More

The study was conceived by Australian technology entrepreneur Steve Killelea [in 2007], and is endorsed by individuals such […]

June 18, 2022 Analysis

Tech solutions to household labour are also problems

person with pink gloves washing a black ceramic mug
R R Read More

Access to leisure is crucial in the climate crisis era, and technological solutions bereft of social change won’t help.

June 13, 2022 Analysis, Tech

A giant leap closer to the continuous atom laser

R R Read More

Physicists have created a steady-state Bose-Einstein condensate – a long-sought feat that opens the door to a variety of applications, including in holography and quantum computing.

June 10, 2022 Scicomm

What arguments against the ‘next LHC’ say about funding Big Physics

R R Read More

A few days ago, a physicist (and PhD holder) named Thomas Hartsfield published a strange article in Big Think about why […]

June 10, 2022 Analysis, Science

What is a supersolid?

Not more solid than solid.

June 7, 2022 Scicomm

Review: ‘Love, Death & Robots’ 3 (2022)

R R Read More

“Embrace the suck.”

June 5, 2022 Culture

Hosting a Ghost blog on Fly.io

falcon on flight
R R Read More

A noob’s guide

May 31, 2022 Tech

Thoughts on the WordPress.com ‘Starter’ plan

WordPress logo chalked on the ground
R R Read More

WordPress.com announced a new ‘Starter’ plan for its users on May 25 after significant backlash from many members […]

May 27, 2022 Life notes, Tech

A tale of two myopias, climate change and the present participle

aerial view of a flooded residential area
R R Read More

The Assam floods are going on. One day, they will stop. The water will subside in many parts of […]

May 26, 2022 Analysis, Scicomm

Posts navigation

« Previous

Posts navigation

1 2 … 105 Next »
  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Axioms
  • Definitions
  • Thanks
  • Work
    • 2012
    • 2013
    • 2014
    • 2015
    • 2016
    • 2017
    • 2018
    • 2019
    • 2020
    • 2021
    • 2022