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Category: Science

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

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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

With Gyanvapi article, Abhinav Prakash Singh does logic wapsi

A view of the Gyanvapi mosque with the remains of a Hindu temple in the foreground.
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The national vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Abhinav Prakash Singh, published an article on May 22 […]

May 23, 2022 Op-eds, Science

Hail the Royal Society

A white building of Victorian architecture is visible against grey clouds.
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The Royal Society’s appointment of its first Brazilian member since 1871 brings an underappreciated form of our colonial hangover to the fore.

May 14, 2022 Culture, Science

The problem with giving “Mother Nature” rights and duties

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Recently, the Madras high court passed a curiously worded order in which Justice S. Srimathy extended the Uttarakhand […]

May 2, 2022 Analysis, Science

India – where repairing a bad road could make life worse

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There is a long road that runs from Mantri Mall to Sankey Road, in Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, called Sampige […]

May 1, 2022 Analysis, Science

There’s a scientistic eclipse

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There is a solar eclipse today and news websites are as usual participating in amplifying nonsense. It’s prima […]

April 30, 2022 Science

The paradoxical virtues of primacy in science

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Primacy is a false virtue imposed by the structures of modern science – yet it is also necessary to right some wrongs.

March 28, 2022 Analysis, Science

Climate change, like quantum physics, will strain language

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One of the defining features of quantum mechanics is that it shows up human language, and thought supported […]

March 10, 2022 Culture, Science

Must war have consequences for scientists?

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The Journal of Molecular Structure has temporarily banned manuscript submissions from scientists working at state science institutes in […]

March 5, 2022 Analysis, Science

‘Aatmanirbharta through science’

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The Week magazine distinguished itself last year by picking Indian Council of Medical Research chief Balram Bhargava as its […]

February 27, 2022 Scicomm, Science

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