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I have updated my list of essays (free to read):
historyofscience.in/2025/03/…
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Tyson's 'eightfold way'
Not that anybody asked, but in the time that has elapsed since the @NYKnicks last won a championship, we’ve discovered eight new Subatomic Particles. J-Psi Meson / Tau Lepton / Bottom Quark / Gluon / W-Z Boson / Top Quark / Tau Neutrino / Higgs Boson
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If you prefer audio-visual form:
youtu.be/SzoGd1yv1Gg
In Sanskrit, the word Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह) is made of two parts: ‘Satya’ (सत्या) means truth. ‘Āgraha‘ (आग्रह) means insistence. In this blog, my aim is to connect the scientific thought process to the concept of Satyagraha.
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Just back from a conference on black holes and gravitational waves celebrating the work of C.V.Vishveshwara 1/n
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In Sanskrit, the word Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह) is made of two parts: ‘Satya’ (सत्या) means truth. ‘Āgraha‘ (आग्रह) means insistence. In this blog, my aim is to connect the scientific thought process to the concept of Satyagraha.
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Ep 126 with Ashna Bajpai
Ashna is a prof at IISER, Pune, who works on magnetic oxides, carbon nanotubes, and spintronics.
In this epi, we explored her research interests converse about Prof. R. Srinivasan, a remarkable experimental physicist from India.
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all episodes with ref on my blog: historyofscience.in/2025/03/…
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Jun 11
“The Joy of Why” is back. In our first episode of the new season, Jennifer Doudna tells me about the rebellious decisions that led her to a Nobel Prize. Tune in:
Jun 11
“The Joy of Why” is back. In our first episode of the new season, pioneering biochemist Jennifer Doudna talks about how her early, “rebellious,” decision to study RNA led her to a Nobel Prize. Tune in:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Jun 10
Bibha Chowdhury Memorial Lecture by Dr. Aradhana Shrivastava, as a part of Vigyan Vidushi (Physics) 2026.
@HBCSE_TIFR @TIFRScience
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I heard that some (dummy) schools across India skip the lab component of school education. If this is true, it is a major disservice to the intellectual development of a student and should be curtailed.
Note: a class demo/YouTube video cannot compensate for a lab.
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This form of thinking is important not only for scientific pedagogy but also for the development of skills complementary to what one learns in a classroom.
There is no serious education in STEM without exposure to a laboratory (including maths/computer science)
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Downstream in a society, a culture of lab is closely connected to thinking, questioning, tinkering, building, testing and manufacturing. And eventually economics.
A culture of experimental thinking is fostered in a lab.
DO NOT IGNORE IT!
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A small dream finally became a magazine! Issue 1 of Spacemail is out: a fortnightly hardcopy astronomy magazine for students in std 5-8, made jointly with Ra Zen AstroSpark. Students collect each 6-8page issue into a personalised binder, building a book by themselves in 6 months.
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#BooksOnMadras 16 - Somerset Playne’s Southern India is an encyclopaedia on Madras and the Presidency in 1915
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A lab is a place where questions are asked, experiments are conducted, and theories are tested...& sometimes in this pursuit, the world is changed.
A case in point is the connection between CERN and the origins of www :
home.cern/science/computing/…
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Jun 6
Gravitational-wave astronomy with a space-based optical clock network
arxiv.org/pdf/2606.01516
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Here's a couple of good resources on the history of special relativity:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.17838 (Detailed survey of Lorentz, Poincaré and Einstein's contributions to SR.)
galileo-unbound.blog/2021/04… (Blog article explaining Minkowski's work and how it led to the modern treatment of SR as a theory of four-dimensional spacetime.)
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