Renowned scientist C. N. R Rao has come under fire for denouncing workers in the IT sectors as doing routine work, while they siphon off valuable intellectual talent from science and the arts and give back almost nothing in return. This deserves some further analysis…
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Nuclear terrorism forms an important part of the armamentarium of one of the Bush administration’s favourite pastimes- threat inflation. While it is true that the potential damage that terrorists could cause with even a 1 kT nuclear weapon is tremendous…
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Back in the days when I was still cutting classes and fortifying my immune system by hanging out in the university cafeteria, one of the running departmental jokes among my friends was about the decrepit-looking old building designated “nuclear chemistry”, a remnant of the sometime heyday of that science when a well-known nuclear chemist had [...]
Usually we are cautioned not to kill the messenger, but in the case of James Watson’s remarks, it seems a little disturbing to me that people are trying to kill the message along with the messenger. The problem with this is that it can very well preempt and halt all scientific research investigating differences in [...]
…they may wish to spice up their public image with something provocative. Well, it seems that the codiscoverer of DNA James Watson has always had the wrong definition of “provocative”, and this time he seems to have really done it and positively inflamed everyone with his comments about people of African descent being less smarter [...]