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Spotting scientists, lazy scientists
Calling scientists as a community 'lazy' is to abdicate the responsibility to make it easier for them to enjoy the fruits of their labours.
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SC's cancer-due-to-cell-tower verdict
If the radiation received and transmitted by base station towers really causes cancer, where's the explosion of cancer rates in urban centres around the world?
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A dummy’s attempt to set up WordPress
If you’re looking to set up your own self-hosted WordPress blog and you also want to learn how it’s done, I highly recommend using Linode's documentation.
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Religious sentiments: upsetting them v. getting upset
If the BJP/Congress have been offended by Prashant Bhushan's tweet, it could only be because they have interpreted his tweet offensively.
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How infographics can lose the plot
if you don't force designers to follow best practices when making an infographic, you'll be setting a lower bar that will soon turn around and assault you with all kinds of charts conceived to hide what the numbers are really saying.
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A gear-train for particle physics
Clockwork theory has been revived and reformulated by scientists from CERN to solve a difficult problem at the heart of particle physics.
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Titan's chemical orgies
New studies of Saturn’s moon Titan should make it more familiar – but the more we learn about it, the more outlandish Titan gets.
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Happy Lord of the Rings Day
On this day, let's read a chapter or two from the trilogy and remember what an enlightening experience reading the books was.
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One in a thousand
Couldn't pull myself away from reading Rajini Krish's posts all of yesterday
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Some notes on empiricism, etc.
The Wire published a story about the 'atoms of Acharya Kanad' (background here; tl;dr: Folks at a university in Gujarat claimed an ancient Indian sage had put forth the theory of atoms centuries before John Dalton showed up). The story in question was by a professor of
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Time to fire myself
There's always bigger fish, isn't there?
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Is it so blasphemous to think ISRO ought not to be compared to other space agencies?
Is it so hard to consider the possibility that we might get a better sense of ISRO's activities if we did not keep comparing it to those of other space agencies?