16-11-2020
Last year Rana Foroohar published a book entitled “Don’t Be Evil”. It had a sub-title: “How Big Tech Betrayed its Founding Principles - and All of Us”. The MBA – Innovation an...
21-06-2020
No one likes bearing a huge debt. It is fine to feel indebted to someone for something nice this someone has done to us. All other categories of debt bring about worries and c...
18-06-2020
We talk about the first tiny moments of our Universe after the Big Bang discussing the emergence of structure in it, we try to solve the mystery of galaxies’ spiral ends movi...
22-05-2020
We are living, it seems, through a Grand Solar Minimum. In simple words, there are no sun spots on the Sun. It should come as no surprise. After all the Sun’s has a 11-year c...
19-05-2020
Computer Science as part of scientific endeavor is associated with the Cartesian method of exploring and understanding the world. It is true that Rene Descartes started his i...
18-05-2020
On September 5, 1906, in a wonderful resort town called Duino, near Trieste, then belonging to Austro-Hungary, Ludwig Boltzmann hung himself in a hotel while on vacation with...
04-05-2020
A few months ago Daniel Kahneman gave an interview to Lex Fridman about Deep Learning and AI. The discussion also naturally wandered into the spheres of expertise common to Ka...
20-03-2020
The coronavirus pandemic is gradually becoming a major event in the recent history of our planet. Although by absolute numbers the common flu statistically looks by far more d...
08-12-2019
There are many questions about our origin which we still grapple with without compelling answers in sight. What happened to Neanderthals? Did we contribute to their extinction...
30-11-2019
The last two hundred years have been phenomenal if it comes to development in all possible dimensions (except the spiritual and several others, some may contend). Economic gr...