Einstein Wasn’t a “Lone Genius” After All
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Where are Science and Development After 75 Years of the Indian Independence?
A scientific vision of development for all Indians informed the quest for independence. The present regime deploys superstition and politics based on fear to aid just a select few.
How Marxists Brought Science to Politics and Politics to Science
We need to understand the links between science, politics, and commercial interests. For Marxists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these were some of the most important questions to be addressed in their work. The cross-fertilization between Marxism and science had major implications for the development of both.
Interview: James Poskett on Reframing the History of Science
A historian of science highlights the crucial achievements of non-Western scientists and thinkers.
A Meditation on a Nebula, Deep Time and Us
What is it about that photograph of the Carina Nebula, taken by the James Webb Telescope, that is so intriguing? We are looking at a nursery of stars, many far bigger than our own sun. And we are also looking back in time.
World Food Safety Day on June 7 Is a Good Time to Assert that GM Food Should Never be Approved
As we observe World Food Safety Day on June 7, it is important to remind ourselves that while there are several threats to food safety, the most serious one come from the very high-powered, relentless efforts to promote GM crops and foods.
Capitalism | COVID19 | India | Online Blog | Privatization | Science
Gutting India’s Public Sector Vaccine Makers
India’s once-thriving public vaccine manufacturers were absent during the pandemic. This was not due to a lack of capability. The problem has been active neglect by the government.
Stop the War – on Livable Ecology
The author is not referring to the war in Ukraine, but to the capitalist war on livable ecology. There’s no war and peace, no social justice, no democracy, no demilitarization, on a dead planet, whether it is frozen in nuclear winter or melted by climate change.
Fascism | India | Indian Politics | Online Blog | Science
“Scientific Thinking Requires Independence of Thought”
Excerpts from the chapters “Scientific Temper” and “Religious Inquiries and Rationalism” from ‘Please Think: Practical Lessons in Developing a Scientific Temper’ by the rationalist.
Einstein vs Quantum Mechanics … and Why He’d be a Convert Today
Albert Einstein’s analysis of the “spookiness” of quantum mechanics opened up a whole range of applications including quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography, but he wasn’t completely convinced by the theory of quantum mechanics – and that story is as fascinating as the theory he attempted to nail down.