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history of science

Brahmins

The importance of sensible politics to good science

Stuart Ritchie writes a newsletter-blog that I quite like, called Science Fictions.
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attribution

The paradoxical virtues of primacy in science

The question of “Who found it first?” in science is deceptively straightforward.
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attribution

On anticipation and the history of science

In mid-2012, shortly after physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
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anti-masker

Trump, science denial and violence

For a few days last week, before the mail-in votes had been
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apoliticism

The real story of 'The Old Guard'

Spoiler alert: Don’t read this post if you intend to watch
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appropriate technology

A great discussion on the history of India's tech.

On February 27, the Bangalore International Centre and Carnegie India hosted a
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democracy

Retrospective: The Wire Science in 2019

At the start of 2019, The Wire Science decided to focus more
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Colonialism

Scientism is not 'nonsense'

The @realscientists rocur account on Twitter took a surprising turn earlier today
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Dreams of a Final Theory

'Nothing in the history of science is ever simple'

Once I finished Steven Weinberg’s book Dreams of a Final Theory,
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