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  • Reimagining Scientific Publishing — A Call For Content

    Reimagining Scientific Publishing — A Call For Content

    Scientists often pay 1000’s of dollars to publish their work, promoting inequality. Through article contributions, we want to reinvent…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Dec 29, 2020
    My medium blog was cited in a peer-reviewed journal

    My medium blog was cited in a peer-reviewed journal

    Does my original blog count as peer-reviewed? Why a paradigm shift from traditional science publishing is desperately needed
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    Skanda Vivek
    Jan 20
    How the world’s longest running experiment breaks physics

    How the world’s longest running experiment breaks physics

    One drop falls every 10 years — questioning the very foundations of statistical physics. Is it solid or liquid? The answer it turns out…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Jun 29, 2020
    U.S. Cyber-Attacks Reveal Unaccounted Complex-System Risks

    U.S. Cyber-Attacks Reveal Unaccounted Complex-System Risks

    In the recent SolarWinds hack, the 5.7 billion dollar DHS detection system failed spectacularly, but why? The answer lies in complex…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Dec 24, 2020
    The Mathematics Behind Indian and Western Music

    The Mathematics Behind Indian and Western Music

    South Indian Music has 72 complete scales, whereas Western music has 12 major scales. Let’s go deeper into the mathematical combinations…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Dec 31, 2020
    Creativity

    Creativity

    Making our way into the world…
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    ScienceDuuude
    Jan 12
    Memorial Day — A memorable day indeed (in the lab)

    Memorial Day — A memorable day indeed (in the lab)

    Four years ago, frustrated by waiting for hours for an experiment, I wrote a poem on science, randomness, and frustration.
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    Skanda Vivek
    Jan 17
    We share 50% of genes with bananas, and 50% from either parent — Is one of our parents a banana?

    We share 50% of genes with bananas, and 50% from either parent — Is one of our parents a banana?

    It’s one thing to say our parents are bananas, another to say they are literally a banana. How can we reconcile these two truths? For that…
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    Skanda Vivek
    Oct 23, 2020
    Emergence in Everyday Materials

    Emergence in Everyday Materials

    I have a simple goal — to understand the emergence of complex everyday phenomena from basic building blocks. This gives the power to…
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    Skanda Vivek
    May 22, 2020
    Why did the sky turn red during California’s wildfires?

    Why did the sky turn red during California’s wildfires?

    It’s all because of two phenomena: scattering and absorption of light
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    Skanda Vivek
    Nov 27, 2020
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