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Tag: astrology

Poverty, psychology and pseudoscience

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From the abstract of ‘Why Do People Stay Poor? Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh’, November 24, […]

January 1, 2021 Analysis, Science

“Enough science.”

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Edit, 6.04 pm, December 15, 2020: A reader pointed out to me that The Guardian may in fact […]

December 15, 2020 Science

Trouble at the doorstep

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When an alumnus of the IISc wanted to organise an astrology workshop at the institute’s premises in 2017, […]

October 11, 2019 Op-eds, Science

Friends no more

Growing up, watching Friends was a source of much amusement and happiness. Now, as a grownup, I can’t […]

December 17, 2017 Op-eds

That astrology workshop at the IISc

Couple caveats: I wrote this post on the night of October 28, before the workshop was cancelled on […]

October 29, 2017 Op-eds, Scicomm

If Rajinikanth regrets some of the roles he played, and other questions

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In most of Tamil cinema, “men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

November 27, 2016 Culture, Op-eds, Uncategorized
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