Tag Archives: knowledge

Magic bridges

Posted on March 1, 2021 by

The last two episodes of the second season of House, the TV series starring Hugh Laurie as a misanthropic doctor at a facility in Princeton, have been playing on my mind off and on during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of its … Continue reading →

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In pursuit of a nebulous metaphor…

Posted on October 4, 2017 by

I don’t believe in god, but if he/it/she/they existed, then his/its/her/their gift to science communication would’ve been the metaphor. Metaphors help make sense of truly unknowable things, get a grip on things so large that our minds boggle trying to … Continue reading →

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Some notes on empiricism, etc.

Posted on March 10, 2017 by

The Wire published a story about the ‘atoms of Acharya Kanad‘ (background here; tl;dr: Folks at a university in Gujarat claimed an ancient Indian sage had put forth the theory of atoms centuries before John Dalton showed up). The story in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Acharya Kanad, aesthetics, Alfred Shapere, dichotomy, empiricism, epistemology, formal science, Frank Wilczek, Hilary Putnam, history, knowledge, naturalness, nature science, Philosophy of Science, rationalism, sense experience, Social Sciences, string theory, time crystals | Comments Off

Discussing some motivations behind a particle physics FAQ

Posted on March 21, 2016 by

Particle physics is in the middle of a quandary. Let’s use it to catch up on all that we’ve missed. Continue reading →

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Why I like writing

Posted on May 3, 2015 by

There’s no perfecting writing. It will always teach you about how to structure your paragraphs, which words to use where, what style or voice or inflections to adopt, or how best to tickle your audience. At the same time, you can see yourself getting better piece after piece. It’s the perfect drug. Continue reading →

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Big science, bigger nationalism.

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

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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Is there only one road to revolution?

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

Read this first. Some of this connects, some of it doesn’t. Most of all, I have discovered a fear in me that keeps me from from disagreeing with people like Meena Kandasamy – great orators, no doubt, but what are … Continue reading →

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