Tag Archives: nationalism

Review: ‘Mission Mangal’ (2019)

Posted on August 17, 2019 by

This review assumes Tanul Thakur’s review as a preamble. There’s the argument that ISRO isn’t doing much by way of public outreach and trust in the media is at a low, and for many people – more than the most … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Scicomm | Tagged Akshay Kumar, Bollywood, Chandrayaan 2, frugal engineering, frugal innovation, GSLV Mk-III, Hinduism, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, Make in India, Mangalyaan, Mars Orbiter Mission, Mission Mangal, NASA, nationalism, PSLV, science communication, Vidya Balan | Comments Off

Would you take Epstein’s money to fund your research?

Posted on August 10, 2019 by

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 | Comments Off

Cognitive flexibility and nationalism 2.0

Posted on April 30, 2018 by

Remember that paper about cognitive flexibility and nationalism? The one that said people who are more nationalistic in their politics tend to have lower cognitive flexibility? I’d blogged about it here. I hadn’t read the study’s paper, published in the Proceedings of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged behavioural psychology, Brexit, causation, cognitive flexibility, correlation, nationalism, neuroscience, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, right-wing fundamentalism, The Guardian | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Big Science, Higgs boson, knowledge, nationalism, ownership, Satyendra Nath Boson | Comments Off