Root Privileges
The little things
The pleasures of rewatching
On mathematics and reputation
Measuring science stories
Review: ‘Decolonial Keywords’ (2026)
Would a quantum battery charge faster than a classical one?
Tech-bros are fully aware of what they’re doing
A laser worthy of a nuclear clock
A bad Sprite ad
The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Developing Tamil Nadu
From the Heisenberg cut to the Copenhagen interpretation
That humans quest for cosmic dawn
To be Indian is to set records
Normalising deviance
String theory and reconciliations
Out there: using a moon to spot dark matter
Savouring playtime
My political views
Heat capacity
Joel Mokyr, Gita Chadha, Lawrence Krauss, Joseph Vijay
Joel Mokyr, Gita Chadha, Lawrence Krauss, Joseph Vijay
Mokyr hearts Nobel Prizes
Mokyr hearts Nobel Prizes
Tracking down energetic cosmic rays
Tracking down energetic cosmic rays
Acting and speaking
Acting and speaking
So you use AI to write…
AI slop clears peer-review
Worlds between theory and experiment
Robbing NISAR to pay ISRO
Light it up
The new labour codes
New labour codes
The House
The House
‘First state to disburse highest compensation’
‘First state to disburse highest compensation’
A little ignorance can be a good thing
A little ignorance can be a good thing
Why do we trust scientists?
Why do we trust scientists?
Is the war against science?
Is the war against science?
Is the war against science?
Is the war against science?
The ‘impact’ of climate writing
The ‘impact’ of climate writing
The ‘impact’ of climate writing
The ‘impact’ of climate writing
Gentle yet final
Gentle yet final
Gentle yet final
Gentle yet final
Gentle yet final
Quasicrystal, heal thyself
Quasicrystal, heal thyself
Quasicrystal, heal thyself
Quasicrystal, heal thyself
Quasicrystal, heal thyself
On Jane Goodall
On Jane Goodall
On Jane Goodall
On Jane Goodall
On Jane Goodall
On Jane Goodall
The ‘religious’ function of science
The ‘religious’ function of science
The ‘religious’ function of science
The ‘religious’ function of science
A bad Nobel for Mokyr
A bad Nobel for Mokyr
A bad Nobel for Mokyr
A bad Nobel for Mokyr
Using disorder to reveal hidden objects
Using disorder to reveal hidden objects
Using disorder to reveal hidden objects
Using disorder to reveal hidden objects
Remembering ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’
Remembering ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’
Remembering ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’
Remembering ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’
What does a quantum Bayes’s rule look like?
What does a quantum Bayes’s rule look like?
What does a quantum Bayes’s rule look like?
Using 10,000 atoms and 1 to probe the Bohr-Einstein debate
Curiosity as a public good
A transistor for heat
The Hyperion dispute and chaos in space
The guiding light of KD45
What on earth is a wavefunction?
On the PixxelSpace constellation