Tag Archives: Big Science
What can science education do, and what can it not?
On September 29, 2021, The Third Eye published an interview with Milind Sohoni, a teacher at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas and at IIT Bombay. (Thanks to @labhopping for bringing it into my feed.) I found it … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture, Science
Tagged Anna University, Big Science, class mobility, India-based Neutrino Observatory, Jacques Ellul, Milind Sohoni, science education, social science, spinoff technologies, The Technological Society, The Third Eye
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“Why has no Indian won a science Nobel this year?”
For all their flaws, the science Nobel Prizes – at the time they’re announced, in the first week of October every year – provide a good opportunity to learn about some obscure part of the scientific endeavour with far-reaching consequences … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Nobel, attosecond physics, Big Science, in-vitro transcribed mRNA, Large Hadron Collider, LIGO India, Nobel Prize, quantum dots
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What arguments against the ‘next LHC’ say about funding Big Physics
A few days ago, a physicist (and PhD holder) named Thomas Hartsfield published a strange article in Big Think about why building a $100-billion particle physics machine like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a bad idea. The article was so replete with … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Science, Big Think, Gaganyaan, Large Hadron Collider, Matthew Strassler, Thomas Hartsfield
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On resource constraints and merit
In the face of complaints about how so few women have been awarded this year’s Swarnajayanti Fellowships in India, some scientists pushed back asking which of the male laureates who had been selected should have been left out instead. This is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Science, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Science and Technology, India-based Neutrino Observatory, ISRO, Jadugoda, jugaad, let teachers teach, NASA, particle physics, R&D funding, resource constraint, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, Superconducting Super Collider, Swarnajayanti Fellowships, transparency, Vannevar Bush
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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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