Stop! Ontology time!
Is that a *hole* in your reasoning?
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Physics, cosmology, and the nature of reality.
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30 of 286AI Solved Hundreds of Open Math Problems. Now What?
The most significant moment in math history just happened...
Understanding India's undertrial population
The share of incarcerated people who are yet to be convicted of a crime - undertrials - in India is among the highest in the world. We examine what laws are putting the most undertrials in jail, and how this is changing what India's incarcerated population loo…
The (non) rule of three
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The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
For the past couple of weeks, you could get my latest book — The Secret Life of Circuits — directly from the publisher.
What is a Differentiable Manifold?
Lecture 3 of Frederic Schuller’s Theoretical Mechanics, translated from the German
How not to detect warming acceleration
A new paper finding significant acceleration uses an inappropriate test with high false-positive rates
Hirosi Ooguri: Could AI Find Physics We Can’t Understand?
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The history of Britain in 7 maps
How geography shaped the country we know today
Dead German guys
The joys and perils of talking about philosophy.
The tyranny of the op-ed
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Yours truly
What’s truth? Does it matter? Should you be asking a blog?...
Seasonal changes in temperatures in India
Although heat is most closely associated with India's summer months, our analysis of long-term temperature data shows that the post-monsoon season has warmed up the most, especially during the nights.
What is a Topological Manifold?
Lecture 2 of Frederic Schuller’s Theoretical Mechanics, translated from the German
The churn beneath
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Hirosi Ooguri: Could AI Find Physics We Can’t Understand?
The (legendary) Hirosi Ooguri on AI, physics, and a possible 2,250-year wait…
The strongest El Niño in a thousand years?
Tree rings and corals both put the biggest modern El Niños at or near the top of the past millennium, and this year’s event is on track to land well above them.
Philip Mannheim: Dark Matter and General Relativity Explained FROM SCRATCH
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2025 saw the most intense pre-monsoon rainfall in India
Our weekly newsletter bringing you one chart about India, and the story behind the data.
What Is Rationality?
Something I’ve been thinking about lately is: what’s precisely meant when someone says you’re not being rational?
Philip Mannheim: Dark Matter and General Relativity Explained FROM SCRATCH
Part One of Philip Mannheim’s lecture on dark matter and gravity
Eating poor
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The world without solar and wind?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
Jonathan Gorard: The Physicist Revolutionizing Physics With AI
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XKDR Newsletter - Issue 54
Floating rupee • Fiscal roots of national power • Solar energy• Limits of IBC • Financing urban development • NBFC listings • Gold investments• Big Ideas episodes, upcoming conferences & more
North-eastern states have the highest shares of workers in government jobs
Our weekly newsletter bringing you one chart about India, and the story behind the data.
Haunted by the ghosts of materialism
Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it
Climate change will shape the future of Texas. Students should be allowed to learn about it.
The “Crisis” in Physics Chronicle
The below is a list of achievements in theoretical (and some experimental) physics which is updated on a regular basis, so you can bookmark this if you like.
Jonathan Gorard: The Physicist Revolutionizing Physics With AI
Math has a proof checker... Can physics get one?