There is a solar eclipse today and news websites are as usual participating in amplifying nonsense. It’s prima […]
Tag: rationalism
The New York Times published an article on September 7, 2021, entitled ‘How the Cat Gets Its Stripes: […]
Two of the most annoying kinds of ‘science people’ I’ve come across on social media of late: Those […]
This post benefited from valuable input and feedback from Thomas Manuel. To the uninitiated: Scott Alexander Siskind is a […]
Spoiler alert: Don’t read this post if you intend to watch The Old Guard but haven’t done so […]
The annular solar eclipse over South India on December 26 provided sufficient cause for casual and/or inchoate rationalism […]
“Don’t politicise X” has become the defence of choice for a class of scientists and public intellectuals in […]
The Wire published a story about the ‘atoms of Acharya Kanad‘ (background here; tl;dr: Folks at a university […]
In his book Infinite In All Directions (2002), Freeman Dyson, one of the tallest intellectual giants of our times, attempts to rescue eschatology from the specious grip of religion and teleology with a mix of scientific reasoning and informed speculation. During this, when describing the big crunch, which is one way our universe could end, he moves smoothly from the rational track he has been sprinting on to a less exact but more pertinent and romantic description.