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When writing one of my first pieces for The Hindu, I remember being called out for using a lot of jargon. While the accusation itself may have been justified, the word my supervisor chose as an exampl…
The following is an excerpt from The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco's debut novel from 1980. The story is set in an Italian monastery in 1327, and is an intellectually heady murder mystery doused i…
The first answer is "No". I mean, whatever you're writing about, the onus is on the writer to break his subject down to its simplest components, and then put them back together in front…
Scientific American has announced the introduction of a new blog, Critical Opalescence, edited by senior editor George Musser. It will focus on the quirky and the fascinating, attempting to revive int…