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Excerpts from the chapters “Scientific Temper” and “Religious Inquiries and Rationalism” from ‘Please Think: Practical Lessons in Developing a Scientific Temper’ by the rationalist.
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.
Huxley had stated in a passage in his book that that Tolstoyans and Gandhi-ites advocate a “return to Nature” and want people to abandon science altogether and live like primitives or, at least in the medieval style.
The vast majority of ‘COVID deaths’ are people with serious, ongoing health conditions. And a lot of these health-related problems can be traced back to modern farming methods and how food is cultivated, not least the toxic agrochemicals used.
The judgment rewards violations instead of establishing accountability. The monumental crisis of climate change has not been factored in. These blessed peaks are pivotal to our nation’s security, its climate, its water, its beauty, its wealth, its food, its air. When the Himalayas lose, India loses it all.
The complex systems of the natural world can open our eyes to a new way of being.
2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.
As rich countries hoard doses and Big Pharma refuses to share the knowledge required to ramp up manufacturing, Cuba’s public biotech sector could play a key role in defeating vaccine apartheid.
The widespread view on the left that Marx had adopted an extreme productivist view of the human domination of nature—and hence had failed to perceive the natural limits to production and ecological contradictions in general, was contradicted by his theory of the metabolic rift.
Marked by extreme localised rainfall events, an unusually dry August and an unusually wet September, the summer monsoon in 2021 kept India guessing, even on its way out. Expect more of the same in future, say climate change assessments.
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