Analysis
According to particle physics, the fundamental building blocks of the universe are point-like particles, essentially small dots of energy with no dimension. String theory posits that these dots are actually minuscule vibrating loops of energy. A violin string vibrating at different frequencies produces different musical notes; similarly these filaments are
Science
From Carl Bergstrom's Twitter thread about a new book called How Irrationality Created Modern Science, by Michael Strevens: The Iron Rule from the book is, in Bergstrom's retelling, "no use of philosophical reasoning in the mode of Aristotle; no leveraging theological or scriptural understanding in
Scicomm
A couple weeks ago, some students from a university in South India got in touch to ask a few questions about my job and about science communication. The correspondence was entirely over email, and I'm pasting it in full below (with permission). I've edited a few
Culture
I wrote the following post while listening to this track. Perhaps you will enjoy reading it to the same sounds. Otherwise, please consider it a whimsical recommendation. :) I should really start keeping a log of different stories in the news all of which point to the little-acknowledged but only-evident fact
Life notes
How much do we not know about what Indian researchers are doing simply because Western scientists haven't written to some of them?
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Science can often be complicated to deal with and benefit from a journalist's gaze – but it must be accompanied, if not preceded, by science communication.
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The 2015 Indian Science Congress is set to begin on January 2, hosted by the Mumbai University. This prestigious event - modeled after the British Association for the Advancement of Science - sees India’s and the world’s foremost researchers coming together for a week once a year, talking