Read this blog from an amazingly talented and imaginative scientist about how scientists use some day-to-day wares and instruments in a life science laboratory.
Put the Sci in your Fi – #2 – Beakers, Bunsen Burners and Budget Cuts (Part 1)
Put the Sci in your Fi – #1 – Button, button, who’s got the button?
Amazing post about…would a genetically engineered baby grown outside a womb have a belly button?
Hey guys! In keeping with one of my New Year’s resolutions, I’m starting up a new section on my blog: Put the Sci in your Fi.
My hope and intent with this blog thread is to create a fun, informal resource for non-scientists who want to write Sci-Fi novels. Those of you who are already well immersed in SF writing will know that you must do your homework, and sometimes there’s a great deal of homework to be done. But sometimes, it’s hard to know what to look for when you’re unfamiliar with the field, especially if you’re looking for something specific.
Always researching…
During the course of writing SF, I’ve been asked a good number of questions that I did my best to explain. There is a certain level of creativity that we can inject into our works, of course. Otherwise, we might as well just write textbooks, and…
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Beliefs vs Facts
As a human and not a machine (unfortunately), I have numerous beliefs. But I have tried hard over the last 10-12 years to differentiate between beliefs and facts. I believe in God, but I don’t consider existence of God/s to be an objective fact. In this issue, atheists and agnostics have a better rational argument…
Immigration is important, and it must be fair.
Immigration is important for the vibrancy and growth of a country. But the laws must also be fair, to protect both the immigrants as well as the natives.
Yemen – forgotten by our tribal mentality
According to the UN, Yemen is currently the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Countless have died, become homeless, on the verge of starving to death, and besieged by diseases. Yet it has barely created a ripple in American social media. I am starting to realize social media outrage has the potential to produce real-life…
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales – a perspective
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, the first book of Dr. Oliver Sacks that I read, had a profound effect on me. The book has 24 chapters, with each chapter being a standalone clinical tale from his career as a neurologist. Divided into four parts, the book delves into ‘Losses’, ‘Excesses’, ‘Transports’,…
Women and toxic families
Women dealing with toxic family - a topic that comes back to me every week, even at work after others become familiar with my writing. And these stories are overwhelming shared to me by women from the eastern part of the planet (doesn't mean it only happens there). In popular culture, many times we easily…
The Tragedy of Kashmiri Pandits
This is a very charged topic, especially in India, but I've been wanting to write about it for a long time because Kashmiri Pandits are one group of refugees that everyone seems to have forgotten about. Having Kashmiri Hindu friends in New York City who themselves or whose parents had to leave Kashmir, gave this…
CDC, Quackery, and the Habit of Blaming Women
Recently the CDC posted guidelines telling women that drinking too much alcohol can result in violence/injuries, getting STDs, or getting unintentionally pregnant. Although intentions might have been in the right place, a lot of it came across as patronizing and somehow taking away the sense of agency - that women need to be warned to watch…
Facebook Privacy Posts to Conspiracy Theoryies – Thinking, Fast and Slow
I had written this post a month and a half back. Two weeks ago The New York Times published a similar article here, and therefore I decided to update and publish this. Few weeks back many people were posting all over Facebook regarding a privacy statement - if you post a certain paragraph then Facebook doesn't have permission to use…
The Philosopher-Scientist 