Defying both Logic and Biology
If there is no record of someone seeing something, that is no particular reason to believe that it cannot have happened
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Opposition To GMOs Is Neither Unscientific Nor Immoral
The pro-and anti-GMO positions will remain polarized until larger questions about the future of food production are addressed.
The Development Agenda and the Progress of Science and Technology in India
The massive dissatisfaction over development outcomes will eventually force us to adopt at least some part of the development agenda. It is better that we do this on our own terms and preserve our autonomy and our notion of rigour.
What is mitochondria in your mother tongue?
A top-down approach of imposing the necessity of polyglot model of scientific communication is likely to be highly unpopular in a multilingual geography such as ours.
The Case for English
If insularity regarding the nation state is already being countenanced in English, how much more is it likely to happen at the level of the native language?
H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their debate whether science is humanity’s best hope continues today
There is much to hope for from science, but a truly reasonable outlook places equal emphasis on science’s limitations.
The ethics of excellence: improving academic research
Improving academic research needs to be a wide-ranging project.
Engaging with Confluence and Studying Vision Documents: A management approach
In all, it appears to involve a good lot of reading, reflection and writing one’s thoughts down for sharing and collaborating in Confluence!
Why does our society lack scientific temper and what can scientists do about it?
the process of science is far more important than the product because the product may be of interest only to a few specialists but the process should be of interest to a much wider group of people
Biological mass extinction far more serious than previously thought?
The world’s biosphere could be likened to a great wall, the human perched atop it. And if the biosphere were to lose a few species of animals, the wall would only lose a few bricks and still remain standing. But soon, if more and more animals go extinct, the entire wall may, just may, come crumbling down. The question is who is removing the bricks?