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The metaphorical transparency of responsible media
We in India often complain about how the media doesn't care enough to cover science stories. But when we're looking back and forward in time, we become blind to the media's efforts.
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TIFR's superconductor discovery: Where are the reports?
Most news publications in India didn't report on an exciting and significant discovery made by physicists from TIFR, Mumbai. Why not?
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Science Quiz - August 4, 2014
Every week, I create a science quiz for The Hindu newspaper’s In School product. It consists of 10 questions and only developments from the week preceding its day of publication (Monday). The answers are at the end. But this week's quiz is a little different. 2014 marks
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Science Quiz - July 28, 2014
Every week, I create a science quiz for The Hindu newspaper’s In School product. It consists of 10 questions and only developments from the week preceding its day of publication (Monday). The answers are at the end. 1. What's a haboob? 2. American biologists tracked ____ ______ over 15
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Science Quiz - July 21, 2014
Every week, I create a science quiz for The Hindu newspaper’s In School product. It consists of 10 questions and only developments from the week preceding its day of publication (Monday). The answers are at the end. (This week's quiz is astronomy-heavy.) 1. July 20, 2014, was
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Science Quiz - July 7, 2014
Every week, I create a science quiz for The Hindu newspaper’s In School product. It consists of 10 questions and only developments from the week preceding its day of publication (Monday). The answers are at the end. 1. The _______ region of southwest China is some 4.5 km above
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Science Quiz - June 30, 2014
Every week, I create a science quiz for The Hindu newspaper's In School product. It consists of 10 questions and only developments from the week preceding its day of publication (Monday). The answers are at the end. 1. A team of Scottish scientists announced the discovery of the
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Science Quiz - June 23, 2014
Every week, I create a science quiz for The Hindu newspaper's In School product. Although it is geared exclusively at school students, it should be available for adults as well because it's a great place to find the news packaged plain and simple. The quiz consists
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Psych of Science: Hello World
Hello, world. :) I'm filing this post under a new category on Is Nerd called Psych of Science. A dull name but it'll do. This category will host my personal reflections on the science in the stories I've written or read and, more importantly, of
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Can science and philosophy mix constructively?
Quantum mechanics can sometimes be very hard to understand, so much so that even thinking about it becomes difficult. This could be because its foundations lay in the action-centric depiction of reality that slowly rejected its origins and assumed a thought-centric one garb. In his 1925 paper on the topic,
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Can science and philosophy mix constructively?
Quantum mechanics can sometimes be very hard to understand, so much so that even thinking about it becomes difficult. This could be because its foundations lay in the action-centric depiction of reality that slowly rejected its origins and assumed a thought-centric one garb. In his 1925 paper on the topic,