anti-intellectualism Friends no more Growing up, watching Friends was a source of much amusement and happiness.
AAAS In solidarity with Nautilus's writers In April this year, Undark published a piece that caught me by
distribution channels 'Lots of people don't know lots of things' You might have seen news channels on the television (if you do
fluviodeltaic morphodynamics Ruins of the Sutlej avulsion paper's coverage Reporting on the new Indus civilisation study out of IIT-K and Imperial
mainstream media Some empathy for Treebeard's privilege There’s a line from The Two Towers (2002) that’s really
Cassandra Willyard Taking the ringdown route to understanding the humans of science What follows is an attempt to process and understand Cassandra Willyard’s
Cassandra Willyard On that 'Last Word on Nothing' post A post published on the Last Word On Nothing blog yesterday has
embargoes Confused thoughts on embargoes Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae
Abel Prize Why do we cover the Nobel Prize announcements? The Nobel Prizes are too big to fail. Even if they’ve
conflict of interest Talking scicomm at NCBS – II I was invited to speak to the students of the annual science
Eric Hobsbawm Communication, journalism and bullshit A week or two ago, a scientist impressed with The Wire‘s
Arwen Cross Overview of science journalism in India, for WiD Wissenschaft im Dialog is hosting “a special series about the role of