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Monthly Archives: February 2016

A return to Umberto Eco

The unwavering intensity of his writing, and of his commitment to seem to be chronicling something as opposed to be vainly conjecturing something, is what made his fiction worth committing to.

Posted byVMFebruary 24, 2016August 8, 2018Posted inCulture, Life notes, Op-edsTags: fascism, Foucault's Pendulum, Saint Augustine, semiotics, silence, The Name of the Rose, Umar Khalid, Umberto Eco

Roundup of missed stories – February 14, 2016

Developments I’d have liked to cover but haven’t been able to for lack of time.

Posted byVMFebruary 14, 2016Posted inScienceTags: Feynman diagrams, GM crops, gravitational constant, gravitational waves, Jeffrey Drazen, Nuclear power, numerical relativity, plagiarism, roundup, Zika virus

Roundup of missed stories – February 8, 2016

Developments I’d have liked to cover but haven’t been able to for lack of time.

Posted byVMFebruary 8, 2016Posted inScicomm, ScienceTags: bioaccumulative pollutants, calcium-48, compliance enforcement, cross-cultural studies, Erwin Schrodinger, fractality, gravitational time dilation, open-access publishing, particle aggregation models, roundup, self-awareness tests, The Selfish Gene, universal decoherence

‘Don’t Move Away’

AR Rahman is masterful at combining lyrical traditions with those forms of music in which they’ve seldom existed, and achieves that seamless weave with subtle, well-crafted interventions.

Posted byVMFebruary 8, 2016August 7, 2018Posted inLife notes, Op-edsTags: AR Rahman, lyrical traditions, Tamil cinema, Thalli Pogathey, Thamarai

'Don't Move Away'

AR Rahman is masterful at combining lyrical traditions with those forms of music in which they’ve seldom existed, and achieves that seamless weave with subtle, well-crafted interventions.

Posted byVMFebruary 8, 2016August 7, 2018Posted inLife notes, Op-edsTags: AR Rahman, lyrical traditions, Tamil cinema, Thalli Pogathey, Thamarai

UCL cancels homeopathy event by Indian docs

Although homeopathy has been widely drubbed as possessing zero curative potential, it continues to have an existence ranging from undemonstrative to unrestrained in many countries.

Posted byVMFebruary 2, 2016Posted inScicommTags: Banerji Protocols, cancer, Department of AYUSH, Edzard Ernst, homeopathy, palliative care, University College London2 Comments on UCL cancels homeopathy event by Indian docs

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