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To understand #NotInMyName
The more vicious public debates we have, the more it will seem like a 'conversation' cordoned off to those masses for whom an awareness of social and political issues is only just budding.
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Communication, journalism and bullshit
Science can often be complicated to deal with and benefit from a journalist's gaze – but it must be accompanied, if not preceded, by science communication.
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Why Wonder Woman's breastplate isn't disappointing
The armour is not actually accompanied by the male gaze in the film, and may not even have been meant as armour at all.
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Unscientific breastplates
Wonder Woman's armour isn't entirely about 'her choices': it creates new ways to harm her because it's trying to preserve other things.
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Geometry's near-miss that wasn't
The extent of Euclidean geometry's imperfections only really came to light when physicists used Riemann's geometry to set up the theories of relativity.
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Weyl semimetals make way for super optics
A Weyl semimetal is a crystal whose lattice has the uncommon ability to carry electrical energy at room temperature.
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Amorphous topological insulators
Physicists from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, have found that topological insulators needn't always be crystals – as has been thought.
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GM: confronting contradictions
Neither the persuasion to nitpick scientific studies nor our persistent hypocrisy is going to end the GM crops debate.
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Some thoughts on the Mack/Dorigo Twitter exchange, and Zivkovic, Feyerabend, etc.
Aspirants flock to role models. The 'underlying human' must not jeopardise their conversation by being a dick.
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A conqueror extraordinaire among bugs
As of June 2015, the harlequin ladybird had been found in 59 countries outside of its native range.
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Overview of science journalism in India, for WiD
Wissenschaft im Dialog is hosting "a special series about the role of science communication and science journalism in various countries". I wrote the India edition
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The raison d'être of a science journalist, courtesy Hobsbawm
'Age of Extremes' offers a carefully considered picture of modern science and its philosophical roots