I’m abandoning a dream. I’m quitting. I’m making a run for it… I’m breaking free! However it’s framed, I’m leaving academia for an industry job.
Why I decided to leave
A conversation with Sabine Hossenfelder and Natalie Wolchover
It’s been over fifty years since I sat shoulder to shoulder with the graduating class of Columbia University’s prestigious School of Journalism. I knew they were…
This is hopefully the first in a series of posts where I better understand something by explaining it.
A trip switch is a safety mechanism for preventing electrical shocks, it’s something I’ve used many times with out really…
What defines a living cell? How to capture the molecular essence of life? These fundamental questions…
If any Nation or world is supposed to be a train, then the education of that country and the world is like a railway track, on which that nation or world runs. Unfortunately, our country is running on such a foreign education system, where there is no place for Vaidic True…
I walked into the woods on that quiet spring day because I was restless. I had come home from college a few days earlier than…
Mocks; they exist for a reason. Whilst some people brush them off as unimportant, they can be a hugely useful way of getting ready for the real thing. If taken seriously, mocks provide the perfect opportunity for some early revision and…
The question that most needs answered is the one few know to ask. Why do we believe what we are taught in books about the nature of our world and how it is situated in the universe, despite seeing with our own eyes that some of that information cannot possibly be true?
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, originally published in 1962, warns of the devastating consequences of the misuse of chemicals on the…
I think that the distance makes it almost impossible to know. If an intelligent life is 100 million light years away it would take 100 million years for a signal to reach us (only if we are looking at that direction and we can filter out noise). And how many years we are looking for? Probably 50–100 years. This window is too small in grand scheme of…
Despite all this excitement and your always impressive writing, we already have photos of a black hole.
To describe warp drivein the form of a haiku?“White-Juday Warp Field.”
Quite interesting to note. It is important to set the right cost savings areas.
When we see things as they really are, we experience strange shifts in perspective.
Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the brain cells.
There is a gene called HTT gene or the Huntingtin gene.This gene provides instructions for making a protein called huntingtin. Mutation in this gene…
Please watch this very short video about falsifiability…
I’ve decided to start blogging. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to rely on the experiences of others to help guide my own career and scientific development so I feel its only appropriate that I share some of my own experiences that may help others (or show me areas I need to improve in).
Only recently has the concept of decision fatigue as a form of mental exhaustion become a subject of psychological study —…