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IBT’s ice-nine effect on Newsweek
In his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut describes a fictitious substance called ice-nine: a crystalline form of water that converts all the liquid water it comes into contact with into more ice-nine. This is the sort of effect the International Business … Continue reading
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Tagged BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed model, Cat's Cradle, Columbia Journalism Review, CPM model, Daniel Tovrov, Facebook, Google, Google Pagerank, ice-nine, International Business Times, Kurt Vonnegut, late capitalism, Newsweek, search engine
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Would you take Epstein’s money to fund your research?
Note: Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019. The following post was written before news of his death emerged. In 2016, I attended a talk by a not-unknown environmental activist in Chennai (not Nityanand Jayaraman, before … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged BuzzFeed, Central Pollution Control Board, Crohn's disease, ethics, Jeffrey Epstein, melanoma, National green Tribunal, nationalism, research funding, Volkswagen
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