Tag Archives: populism

Injustice ex machina

Posted on January 5, 2020 by

There are some things I think about but struggle to articulate, especially in the heat of an argument with a friend. Cory Doctorow succinctly captures one such idea here: Empiricism-washing is the top ideological dirty trick of technocrats everywhere: they … Continue reading →

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Ending 2019

Posted on December 28, 2019 by

This blog achieved multiple minor but personally enjoyable milestones in 2019: It was read by people in 143 counties, the highest in a single year since 2008 (when I started blogging) It was the second busiest year by traffic (after … Continue reading →

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Taking the ringdown route to understanding the humans of science

Posted on October 21, 2017 by

What follows is an attempt to process and understand Cassandra Willyard’s post on Last Word on Nothing, about her preferring the humanised stories of science over the stories of the science itself (“Physics writers, this is how you nab the … Continue reading →

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On that 'Last Word on Nothing' post

Posted on October 19, 2017 by

A post published on the Last Word On Nothing blog yesterday has been creating quite the stir on Twitter. Excerpt: While I can appreciate that this is an important scientific discovery, I still have a hard time mustering excitement over … Continue reading →

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