Hartosh Singh Bal turned from the difficulty of doing mathematics to the ease of writing on politics. Unlike mathematics all this requires is being less wrong than most others who dwell on the subject.
Much like neurons in a brain, individual bees may provoke or inhibit the response of an entire swarm
15 December 2011This government seems to be working overtime to prove that it does not think its decisions through
08 December 2011The observation of very low motility in naked mole rat sperm illustrates the power of evolutionary logic
07 December 2011The compulsions of coalition politics cannot be any government’s answer to every wrongdoing
25 November 2011This year’s Booker winner and last year’s winner of the Prix Goncourt have arrived simultaneously at Indian bookstores. Here are some good reasons to pick one over the other
24 November 2011But the kind of regulation Katju has in mind does nothing to address the real issues at stake
18 November 2011The bacterium uses the body’s immune defences to obtain shelter and then multiply
16 November 2011Clearly, a book for a foreign readership by an ill-informed writer. Why foist this on us?
11 November 2011Human evolution may have gained much from the extra energy cooking made available
11 November 2011CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
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