Tag Archives: Occam’s razor

Questions we should be asking more often

Posted on July 13, 2020 by

1. Okay, but where’s the money coming from? In a lecture at the Asian College of Journalism, where I was in the audience as a student, P. Sainath told us that if we needed one rule following which we’d be … Continue reading →

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Anil Ananthaswamy in conversation with Anita Nair

Posted on July 30, 2019 by

I attended an event at the Bangalore International Centre yesterday, Anita Nair in conversation with Anil Ananthaswamy about narrative non-fiction. Anil spoke for 45-55 minutes about what it was like to write his first book, The Edge of Physics (2010), … Continue reading →

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There’s something wrong with this universe.

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

I’ve gone on about natural philosophy, the philosophy of representation, science history, and the importance of interdisciplinary perspectives when studying modern science. There’s something that unifies all these ideas, and I wouldn’t have thought of it at all hadn’t I … Continue reading →

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