Tag Archives: Lawrence Krauss

Joel Mokyr, Gita Chadha, Lawrence Krauss, Joseph Vijay

Posted on December 15, 2025 by VM

All that thinking about Joel Mokyr and his prescription to support society’s intellectual elite in order to ensure technological progress took me back to a talk Gita Chadha delivered in 2020, and to a dilemma I’d had at the time … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Culture, Science | Tagged art and artist, genius, Gita Chadha, Jeffrey Epstein, Joseph Vijay, Karur crowd crush, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman | 1 Comment

Melinda, Bill and Jeffrey (Epstein)

Posted on May 18, 2021 by VM

I’m not sure what to make of Bill Gates as he features in the New York Times‘s report on his divorce with Melinda French Gates, although it’s tempting to see hints of that attitude so often on display when the … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds | Tagged Arizona State University, Bill Gates, George Church, Jean-François Gariépy, Jeffrey Epstein, John Brockman, Joi Ito, Lawrence Krauss, Melinda French Gates, MIT, Seth Lloyd | Leave a comment

To read or not a bad man’s book

Posted on July 23, 2020 by VM

The Life of Science team uploaded the video of their webinar on July 10, about the construct of the genius in science, on YouTube on July 14. Please watch it if you haven’t already. I had also blogged about it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Science | Tagged #MeToo, Enrico Fermi, genius, Geoffrey Marcy, Georges Lemaître, Gita Chadha, Jeffrey Epstein, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, scientific genius, The Life of Science | 1 Comment

Redeeming art v. redeeming science

Posted on June 29, 2020 by VM

Recently, someone shared the cover of a soon to be released book, entitled The Physics of Climate Change, authored by Lawrence M. Krauss and expressed excitement about the book’s impending publication and the prospect of their reading it. I instinctively … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Culture, Science | Tagged diversity, Enrico Feri, Erik Shapiro, Geoffrey Marcy, Georges Lemaître, Jeffrey Epstein, Lawrence Krauss, passing the trash, Richard Feynman, separate art from artist, separate scholar from scholarship, sexual harassment, social anthropology | Leave a comment

Necessity and sufficiency

Posted on January 13, 2020 by VM

With apologies for recalling horrible people early in the day: I chanced upon this article quoting Lawrence Krauss talking about his friend Jeffrey Epstein from April 2011, and updated in July 2019. Excerpt (emphasis added): Renowned scientists whose research Epstein … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged empiricism, Jeffrey Epstein, Lawrence Krauss, necessity, Neil deGrasse Tyson, scientism, Steven Pinker, sufficiency | 1 Comment

Epstein’s friends from the ‘Reality Club’

Posted on July 28, 2019 by VM

New York magazine has published an alphabetised list of the names of people that find mention in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘black book’, a log book of sorts in which he kept track of the people he entertained, including at his residence … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds, Science | Tagged Christian Ott, Daniel Dennett, Edge Foundation, Geoff Marcy and including Jorge Domínguez, Jason Lieb, John Brockman, John R. Searle, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Katze, New Atheists, Reality Club, Richard Dawkins, scholarship, Steven Pinker, Thomas Pogge, William V. Harris | Comments Off