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I'm not fully convinced as to why everyone is currently bashing the Jio Institute up. When the 'Institutions of Eminence' scheme's rules were announced in August 2017 and greenfield institutions were welcomed to apply, everyone was either perfectly okay with the idea or didn&
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There's a video from Postcard News doing the rounds, showing a lady demonstrating the ability of a cow-urine-based substance to purportedly detoxify the human body. It does a fabulous job of making a mockery of itself given that it is only a few minutes long – and I'
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There was no post on July 11 because whatever I wrote on that day was for the article below. I couldn't share it on that day itself because the embargo for the scientific papers it was based on lifted at 8.30 pm on July 12. I. Prologue
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The most curious thing about moving to Delhi – little anxiety, lots of a seemingly deep-rooted melancholy that I will no longer have a scientist roommate. It was one of the most fun things about my time living in Chennai, and unexpectedly so. My roommate there was a physicist. He'
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The Higgs boson has finally been observed decaying into the particles it most often decays to – six years after it was discovered. The reason for this delay was noise. The Higgs boson is a scalar boson: it has spin 0. To preserve the value of this spin quantum number, it
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Fracture mechanics theory in college was never my forte, whether that was because it was taught by a particularly dull professor who thought he had a loud voice or because it was just a dry subject. Rule 1: If a crack forms in a solid material, it's because
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The News Minute, July 6, 2018: Terracotta handicrafts and vessels, bamboo trinkets, organic grains, herbs and pulses up for sale. Children running around playing with natural stick and wheel toys made using Palmyra palm leaves. An array of fresh and dried herbs displayed along with lemon and betel leaves on
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Good fantasy fiction – rather simply fantasy fiction – is defined not by a freewheeling re-imagination of reality but one that is re-imagined as much as contained in a self-consistent, coherent and substantive framework that is logical, cultural, political, aesthetic or a combination of some/all of them. With that in mind,
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I've been in Delhi for three days, and for the last two of which I've been house-hunting and then buried in office work. While I was trawling through dozens of Facebook posts and items on Magicbricks and 99acres looking for advertisements of 1 or 2 BHK
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I've made two mistakes – both concerning Orson Scott Card's quadrology and both nominal – in today's post, and which I have now rectified. I ask that you revisit/refresh that post to read the updated text. The book I first quoted was Children of the
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I've missed writing my posts for three days straight. 🙈 I don't know about you but I've certainly let myself down. I have a trove of excuses but I'm sure none of them qualify. Today is Higgs Day. I'm not sure
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In the middle of a conversation this morning, my friend wondered aloud as to whether there were any advantages to teaching history forward in time (i.e. with causality) instead of backward. Neither of us being historians… rather, both of us being far too quantitative in our thinking to be