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Month: July 2021

The problem with rooting for science

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The idea that trusting in science involves a lot of faith, instead of reason, is lost on most […]

July 28, 2021 Analysis, Scicomm

Boron nitride, tougher than it looks

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During World War I, a British aeronautical engineer named A.A. Griffith noticed something odd about glass. He found […]

July 19, 2021 Scicomm

On tabletop accelerators

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Tabletop accelerators are an exciting new field of research in which physicists use devices the size of a […]

July 18, 2021 Scicomm

NCBS fracas: In defence of celebrating retractions

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Continuing from here… Irrespective of Arati Ramesh’s words and actions, I find every retraction worth celebrating because how […]

July 11, 2021 Analysis, Science

NCBS retraction – addenda

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My take on the NCBS paper being retracted, and the polarised conversation that has erupted around the incident, […]

July 8, 2021 Op-eds, Science

Pseudoscientific materials and thermoeconomics

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The Shycocan Corp. took out a full-page jacket ad in the Times of India on June 22 – the […]

July 6, 2021 Analysis, Science

Scicommers as knowledge producers

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Reading the latest edition of Raghavendra Gadagkar’s column in The Wire Science, ‘More Fun Than Fun’, about how […]

July 5, 2021 Scicomm
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