Ashutosh Jogalekar is a chemist interested in the history, philosophy and sociology of science. He is fascinated by the logic of scientific discovery and by the interaction of science with public sentiments and policy. He blogs at The Curious Wavefunction and can be reached at curiouswavefunction@gmail.com.
Digital Hydra: The Rise of the Couple Profile on Facebook
About 50 miles from the Texas border in southeastern New Mexico sits the town of Carlsbad, home of the renowned Carlsbad Caverns. Its lesser-known claim to fame which actually might have a disproportionately long-lasting impact on the future of energy and the human species is as a site for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation [...]
Deconstructing John Miller’s arguments against nuclear energy in the New York Times
John Miller, a social psychologist and journalist who once served as an officer on a nuclear submarine has a piece on Andrew Revkin’s New York Times blog Dot Earth in which he purportedly dismisses several claims about nuclear energy and provides evidence to the contrary; these include general claims as well as those made more [...]
The Olinguito: A New Species That Looks House Cat Crossed With a Teddy Bear
The Times’s Eduardo Porter has a short piece on nuclear power vs renewables where he makes a plea for supporting the development of new nuclear technologies with improved safety and efficiency.
Belief in multiple universes requires exceptional vision. So does belief in telepathy.
I exaggerate with the title of this post, but only slightly. The title is a reaction to a strange article on multiple universes written by Tom Siegfried at Science News.
Is psychology a “real” science? Does it really matter?
Fellow Scientific American blogger Melanie Tannenbaum is flustered by allegations that psychology is not a science and I can see where she is coming from.
What does mercury being liquid at room temperature have to do with Einstein's theory of relativity?
NSA and the problem of distinguishing good ideas from bad ones
Noted historian of technology George Dyson has a thought-provoking piece in Edge where he takes government surveillance to task, not just on legal or moral grounds but on basic technical ones.
Richard Rhodes on the need for nuclear power
Creationists are wrong. Science is actually concerned with the truth.
Memo to chemists: Move away from the molecule
Where's the chemistry lobby? On why we need a National Center for Chemical Education
Lindau 2013: All our hopes and fears: Why we need psychologists at Lindau
Lindau 2013: The quiet American
Lindau 2013: Avram Hershko's lessons for doing good science
Lindau 2013: Steven Chu talks innovation, energy, climate change and awareness
Lindau 2013: Supramolecular chemistry - Moving away from synthesis and toward design
Lindau 2013: The GPCR symphony
Lindau 2013: A receding horizon, now within reach
Lindau 2013: Unity and diversity
Lindau 2013: Chemistry and diversity
JFK, nuclear weapons and the 1963 Peace Speech: How far have we come?
Promise or problem? A debate on nuclear power
Hope springs eternal: "Pandora's Promise" and the truth about nuclear energy
Theorists, experimentalists and the bias in popular physics