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Month: March 2021

Lord of the Rings Day

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Here’s wishing you a Happy Lord of the Rings Day! (Previous editions: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014.) On […]

March 25, 2021 Culture, Life notes

Defending philosophy of science

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From Carl Bergstrom’s Twitter thread about a new book called How Irrationality Created Modern Science, by Michael Strevens: […]

March 23, 2021 Science

On crypto-art, racism and outcome fantasies

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If you want to find mistakes with something, you’ll be able to find them if you tried long […]

March 23, 2021 Analysis, Op-eds, Tech

COVID-19, due process and an SNR problem

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At a press conference streamed live on March 18, the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that the […]

March 21, 2021 Scicomm

A tale of vortices, skyrmions, paths and shapes

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There are many types of superconductors. Some of them can be explained by an early theory of superconductivity […]

March 19, 2021 Scicomm, Science

Reimagining science, redux

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This article on Founding Fuel has some great suggestions I thought, but it merits sharing with a couple caveats. First, in […]

March 18, 2021 Science

Physicists produce video of time crystal in action 😱

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Have you heard of time crystals? A crystal is any object whose atoms are arranged in a fixed […]

March 9, 2021 Scicomm

Anti-softening science for the state

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The group of ministers (GoM) report on “government communication” has recommended that the government promote “soft topics” in […]

March 6, 2021 Op-eds, Scicomm, Science

Some good books I read recently

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Since January 2020 Read Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko Every Creature Has a Story, […]

March 4, 2021 Life notes

What is academic freedom?

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Note: I originally wrote two versions of this article for The Wire; one, a ‘newsier’ version, was published […]

March 3, 2021 Analysis

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