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Category: History of Science

Fake News Or Ground Truth? Alice And The Queen of Hearts

If an analysis of computing texts were to be done, I am willing to bet that ‘Alice in Wonderland’ would … More

Viva Castro, the Michelangelo of revolutionaries!

The towering personality of the 20th century has passed away. His achievements and those of Cuba under him are monumental. … More

Father Berrigan: For the Children and the Bread

Father Dan Berrigan died yesterday (April 30, 2016). He was one of the leading lights of the antiwar and civil … More

Patrice Lumumba-Never to forgive, never to forget

The Jewish culture has this very powerful saying, which many Jews especially repeat on a day called the holocaust memorial day: Never … More

Paris Attacks: Collective Moral Blindness Spells Collective Doom

What happened in Paris was heart-wrenching and tragic. My first reaction was intense anger at the monstrous perpetrators. Soon after, … More

Rational Fools

Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen, coined the term “Rational Fools” nearly 35 years ago. In his famous paper, Sen … More

Capitalism, Commons, Efficient Markets, Elinor Ostrom, Game Theory, Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Rational Action, Rational Fools

Abdus Salam and Galileo: The separation of science from religion (and philosophy)

Dr Abdus Salam, the late Pakistani particle physicist is the only Muslim physicist till date to have been awarded the Nobel … More

Abdus Salam, Copernicus, Galileo, Inquisition, Lawrence Krauss, Philosophy, Ptolemy, Separation of science and religion, St. Augustine, The Assayer

Newton’s ‘Quantum Revolution’ and the Death Knell of Materialism

In an earlier post on Einstein, I discussed Newton’s demolition of the mechanical philosophy. Since the topic of materialism is … More

Einstein, Intelligibility, Materialism, Mechanical Philosophy, Newton, Physics, Quantum Mechanics

Galileo and Economics

Or ‘Why we can’t blame Galileo for the latest financial crisis!’ 🙂 Modern science can be roughly said to begin … More

abstractions, Economics, efficient market hypothesis, Galilean Style, Galileo, idealizations, rational choice theory, rational expectations

Alan Turing in a society of machines

I am usually not at a loss for words (at least while writing). But what can one possibly write about … More

Alan Turing, Chekhov, Enigma, Mind as Machine, Modeling, Turing Machine

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