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Sunday, July 14, 2019

Cricket wins again

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As England lifts the 2019 world cup in cricket for the first time, the fans of the sport around the world, approaching 3 billion, immerse i...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

The inverted U of closed biological systems

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Many have been worried about the existential threats to humanity – asteroids, climate change and ignorant leaders. However, there could be ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Weird stars and aliens

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As astrophysicists find weird observations, the fallback position for an explanation appears to be the presence of aliens (1). It is about ...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Water, water everywhere, but…

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The recent drought in India that has resulted in one of the major cities, Chennai, effectively running out of water just as Cape Town did...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Quantum pipe-dream

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Quantum computing (1), possibly the only leap humans could take to reach many of their overblown expectations in Artificial Intelligence an...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Revisiting AI for Policy

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Policy making, a complex activity that needs to consider large amounts of disparate data and optimize within constraints in the long and sh...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Free Will is Real (1), Really?

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A recent philosophical argument that seems to hypothesize that free will is real (1) because of the "existence of alternative possibi...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

The trouble with conservation

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A recent article (1) articulates how well intentioned conservation policies could have unintended effects. From inception, humans have been...
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