The scientific names of plants are given in Latin, a language spoken by no one. This could be one explanation for the common phenomenon of plant blindness in humans.
The line between scientific and unscientific thinking is finer than we think.
Is it even possible to spread a set of norms widely, but still maintain your status as the arbiter of those norms?
The last global age was the Golden Age of Islam. So why aren’t our intellectuals scouring it for clues about what lies ahead for us?
Here in Banaue, deep in the heart of the Cordilleras mountain range in the Philippines, civilization seems very far away, and it is intentionally…
In the year 1887, Srinivas Ramanujan was born in the temple town of Kumbakonam, the last redoubt of orthodox Brahminism against the onslaught of…
How does a traditional healing system transform itself into a scientific one? It is a worthwhile endeavor, assuming of course, that you don’t believe…
“A group of men set out to collect the fruits of a garden, but before doing so, they failed to acknowledge that their labors…
If we want to spread secular and scientific thought, we need better and more translations of scientific ideas into the vernacular.
Seriously, am I the only one who sometimes feels like science has made everything more boring?