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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

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

UAE’s spaceflight shortcut to making history

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This post benefited from valuable input and feedback from Thomas Manuel. In an hour or so, the UAE’s […]

February 9, 2021 Analysis

“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

Injustice ex machina

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There are some things I think about but struggle to articulate, especially in the heat of an argument […]

January 5, 2020 Culture, Tech

The rationalists’ eclipse

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The annular solar eclipse over South India on December 26 provided sufficient cause for casual and/or inchoate rationalism […]

December 27, 2019 Culture, Science

Accumulation then philanthropy

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Peter Woit’s review of a new book about Jim Simons, the mathematician and capitalist who set up the […]

November 23, 2019 Science

Exploring what it means to be big

Reading a Nature report titled ‘Step aside CERN: There’s a cheaper way to break open physics‘ (January 10, […]

March 31, 2018 Scicomm
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