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The BJP’s fake news (fake?) meeting

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Reuters published a very interesting report on February 2, entitled ‘Exclusive-In heated meeting, India seeks tougher action from U.S. tech giants […]

February 2, 2022 Analysis

IBT’s ice-nine effect on Newsweek

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In his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut describes a fictitious substance called ice-nine: a crystalline form of water […]

October 24, 2019 Culture

Confused thoughts on embargoes

Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae to study the neutron-star collision that LIGO […]

October 16, 2017 Op-eds, Scicomm

A for-publishers stack and the symmetry of globalisation

Journalism as the fourth estate has been noticeably empowered in the Information Age, with technologies like the WWW, […]

August 12, 2017 Life notes

Gravitational lensing and facial recognition

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The galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 shows an example of strong gravitational lensing – and an optical illusion called pareidolia.

January 3, 2017 Science

Alibaba IPO – A vindication of China’s Internet?

If China wants Alibaba to go international, it will find it tough to take refuge behind its current Internet governance policies. Anuj Srivas explains.

September 23, 2014 Tech
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