Monthly Archives: April 2013
Big science, bigger nationalism.
Nature India ran a feature on March 21 about three Indian astrophysicists who had contributed to the European Space Agency’s Planck mission that studied the universe’s CMBR, etc. I was wary even before I started to read it. Why? Because of that first … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Science, Higgs boson, knowledge, nationalism, ownership, Satyendra Nath Boson
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Crowd-sourcing a fantasy fiction tale
What if thousands of writers, economists, philosophers, scientists, teachers, industrialists and other many other people from other professions besides were able to pool their intellectual and creative resources to script one epic fantasy-fiction story? Such an idea would probably form … Continue reading
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Tagged crowd-sourcing, fantasy fiction, imagineering, Isaac Asimov
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