Avoiding 'muddled science' in the newsroom
On April 23, I was part of a webinar called ProtoCall, organised
scientific research
Freeman Dyson's PhD
The physicist, thinker and writer Freeman Dyson passed away on February 28,
The scientist as inadvertent loser
Twice this week, I’d had occasion to write about how science
The chrysalis that isn't there
I wrote the following post while listening to this track. Perhaps you
A science for the non-1%
David Michaels, an epidemiologist and a former US assistant secretary of labour
The not-so-obvious obvious
If your job requires you to pore through a dozen or two
How science is presented and consumed on Facebook
This post is a breakdown of the Pew study titled The Science
By the way: the Chekhov's gun and the science article
“If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the
Cybersecurity in space
Featured image: The International Space Station, 2011. Credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY
Vanilla entertainment
One of the first, and most important in hindsight, bits of advice
From unboiling eggs to the effects of intense kissing, IgNobel Prizes reward good ol' curiosity
The year’s IgNobel Awards were held on September 17, and rewarded
A "Dear ISRO" moment
I published a quick analysis in The Hindu, republished with permission from
