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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
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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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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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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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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Creativity

Creativity

Making our way into the world…
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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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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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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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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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