Patrick McCray

Toppling Epstein’s intellectuals network

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While there have been no other high-profile exits from the MIT Media Lab after Ethan Zuckerman and J. Nathan Matias submitted their resignations, the lab’s students had been demanding its director Joi Ito to resign over his ties with Epstein. While it is ridiculous that Ito pled ignorance in his August 15 note where he admitted he … Read more

The pitfalls of thinking that ASTROSAT will be ‘India’s Hubble’

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ASTROSAT's instruments being tested at ISRO's Satellite Centre in Bangalore. Source: ISRO

The Hubble Space Telescope needs no introduction. It’s become well known for its stunning images of nebulae and star-fields, and it wouldn’t be amiss to say the telescope has even become synonymous with images of strange beauty often from distant cosmic shores. No doubt saying something is like the Hubble Space Telescope simplifies the task of … Read more