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Month: July 2020

The real story of ‘The Old Guard’

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Spoiler alert: Don’t read this post if you intend to watch The Old Guard but haven’t done so […]

July 25, 2020 Analysis, Science

The weekly linklist – July 25, 2020

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I’ve decided to publish this linklist via Substack. Next weekend onwards, it will only be available on https://linklist.substack.com. […]

July 25, 2020 Uncategorized

To read or not a bad man’s book

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The Life of Science team uploaded the video of their webinar on July 10, about the construct of […]

July 23, 2020 Culture, Science

Super-spreads exist, but do super-spreaders?

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What does the term ‘super-spreader’ mean? According to an article in the MIT Tech Review on June 15, “The word […]

July 21, 2020 Analysis, Scicomm

The occasional linklist – July 19, 2020

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I have been pondering creating a column on my blog where I share links to articles I read […]

July 19, 2020 Uncategorized

Questions we should be asking more often

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1. Okay, but where’s the money coming from? In a lecture at the Asian College of Journalism, where […]

July 13, 2020 Analysis

Caste, and science’s notability threshold

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A webinar by The Life of Science on the construct of the ‘scientific genius’ just concluded, with Gita […]

July 10, 2020 Scicomm, Science

A non-self-correcting science

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While I’m all for a bit of triumphalism when some component of conventional publication vis-à-vis scientific research – […]

July 8, 2020 Science

Citations and media coverage

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According to a press release accompanying a just-published study in PLOS ONE: Highly cited papers also tend to […]

July 6, 2020 Science

The awesome limits of superconductors

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On June 24, a press release from CERN said that scientists and engineers working on upgrading the Large […]

July 5, 2020 Scicomm

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