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Four years
Engineering as a methodology … contains a fundamentally materialist kernel, even if its present incarnation as a bourgeois science drives engineers to think and behave otherwise. — Nick Chavez, Engineers, Materialism, and the Communist Method After school, I studied mechanical … Continue reading
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Tagged Air India, Axiom Space, Axiom-4, bourgeois science, CP Snow, engineering, engineering education, flight crash, Indian Space Research Organisation, International Atomic Energy Agency, Israel-Iran conflict, materialism, MV Ramana, Nick Chavez, nuclear weapons, science journalism, SpaceX, temporary expertise, two cultures
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‘Poverty first, Mars next’ is a non-idea
The government has mismanaged scientific research to the point of the people thinking its only goals are to alleviate poverty. Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, bureaucracy, engineering, GM crops, grants allocation, nuclear physics, research and development, Research Funding Organisation, Science in India, telecommunication
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