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I'm changing this blog's name from Is Nerd because I haven't felt like a nerd for a while and the blog's contents have reflected that, too. At the same time, I'm not going to split up my stuff between different
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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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Curious Bends is a weekly newsletter about science, tech., data and India. Akshat Rathi and I curate it. You can subscribe to it here. If have feedback, suggestions, or would just generally like to get in touch, just email us. 1. The puzzle of Delhi's air pollution Delhi
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Billing its mission as a journey to the beginning of the Solar System, the NASA Dawn probe has revealed more information about the asteroid Vesta that has scientists both eager and cautious about what they have learned. The second largest in the belt of bodies between the orbits of Mars
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I hate travelling. But don't confuse that with going to new places and meeting new people. I don't mind that. What I dislike is catching a train or a flight and mingling with other people on the move, in train stations and airports, while waiting for
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In a Nature article, Praveen Chaddah argues that textual plagiarism entails that the offending paper only carry a correction and not be retracted because that makes the useful ideas and results in the paper unavailable. On the face of it, this is an argument that draws a distinction between the
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I flew from Bangalore to Delhi on Tuesday. The flight was early in the day, at 6, and so I had the wonderful opportunity to watch a sunrise from above a sea of clouds. One very beautiful sight was the presence of uniquely shaped ones, styled like the waves in
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Formatting a motion chart in Google Visualization is as hellish as it's surprising how simple R makes it. One more reason to learn this underrated language. To create this motion chart, I downloaded the data from here (as CSV) and keyed in the following lines in RStudio: emissions
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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