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The Nobel Prizes are a deeply flawed institution both out of touch with science as it is done today and with an outsized influence on scientific practice at the most demanding levels. Yet these relati…
The amount of communicative effort to describe the fact of a ball being thrown is vanishingly low. It's as simple as saying, "X threw the ball." It takes a bit more effort to describe ho…
Most news publications in India didn't report on an exciting and significant discovery made by physicists from TIFR, Mumbai. Why not?…
The Hindu June 3, 2014 "In the 3,000 years since the philosophers of ancient Greece first contemplated the mystery of creation, the emergence of something from nothing, the scientific method has…
This is the coolest thing I've seen all day, and I'm pretty sure it'll be the coolest thing you'd have seen all day, too: The Chain of Self-siphoning Beads, a.k.a. Physics Brainmelt.…