Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? newyorker.com/magazine/2021/… via The New Yorker

A long, kind review of SHAPE from Shaastra, the magazine of IIT Madras shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/book/why-geome…

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No way! Scientists are the rare humans who have transcended matters of ego, having been humbled by the grandeur of the universe.

Particularly rich because, during a supply crunch, the UK was happy to lean on AstraZeneca to try to get 10 million doses of the Indian vaccine — the same one it’s refusing to recognise now. Five million doses were even administered to Britons. reuters.com/article/health…

My daughter was frustrated by an activity in a math class where they had to solve as many problems as they could in a minute. I told her this bears no connection to actual mathematics—I’d been working on the problem I just solved for 20 years, which blew her mind!

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They Said the Tornado Would Hit at 9:30. It Hit at 9:30. nytimes.com/2021/12/14/us/…

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” “A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” --E.O. Wilson, 1929-2021

Got a Covid Booster? You Probably Won’t Need Another for a Long Time nytimes.com/2022/02/21/hea…

Ignore Rocket Boys, read this marvelous book on how a bunch of young Indians built science research institutions. From space, nuclear energy to observatories. This bit about Govind Swarup,the man behind the great Ooty telescope, also shows the status UP's varsities once enjoyed.

Yes, moving company, we really do have that many boxes of books. No, that's not the number of books. It really is the number of boxes full of books.

Promises to be an excellent read.

If you happen to be at the Indian Science Congress 2023 #ISC2023 in Nagpur, being inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, do drop by at the #ShaastraMag stall (A05) for a celebration of #science IIT Madras ACR - Alumni and Corporate Relations, IIT Madras It's the 1st in-person ISC in 3 years!

Amazed to see my 12 yr old pic of the Growth Dome startrails put to a Gold ⭐use on the cover page of Shaastra - IIT Madras magazine from IIT. A very enlightening read about new observational tool & techniques in astronomy in India shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/lead-story/gol…

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In an exclusive interview with Shaastra Magazine, IIT Madras, Meta Chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says that researchers need to think beyond LLMs and work instead on architectures that can reason, understand the world, and plan. Interview by Sweta Akundi shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/interview/futu… IIT Madras