The Royal Society’s appointment of its first Brazilian member since 1871 brings an underappreciated form of our colonial hangover to the fore.
Tag: Nobel Prizes
Primacy is a false virtue imposed by the structures of modern science – yet it is also necessary to right some wrongs.
Who would have been the most iconic woman physicist of all time if the Nobel Prizes didn’t exist?
There’s a phenomenon in high-energy particle physics that I’ve found instructive as a metaphor to explain some things […]
On December 12, Iron Man, a.k.a. Robert Downey, Jr., and David Lang coauthored an op-ed in Fast Company […]
Katie Langin’s report for Science on October 12 is an eye-opening account of one reason why the committees […]
The Association for the Advancement of AI conferred its ‘Squirrel AI Award’ on Cynthia Rudin, and Duke University […]
The sciences part of this year’s Nobel Prize announcements have concluded. These are the new laureates: Physics – […]
One count on which I almost always find myself to be an outlier in India is my opinion […]
A webinar by The Life of Science on the construct of the ‘scientific genius’ just concluded, with Gita […]