Vol. II · No. 259
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026
174 writers in the library
Physics, cosmology, and the nature of reality
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Science.

Physics, cosmology, and the nature of reality.

Lately on the shelf

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Three blind men, and unemployment

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“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here

Some pics, endorsements, and the reason the book exists in the first place.

The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record

More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news

She Says Spacetime Points Are Just Where Fields Meet

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Inverse-square law

In which Sally loses her marbles.

One in every 250 young men in Punjab and Delhi is in prison

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The Ontology of Time. We Had It Backwards

Jim Al-Khalili on the strange physics of time…

Using India's e-courts data to answer questions around access to justice

The e-courts database has become an important repository of India's judicial data, and has opened up possibilities of deep empirical research. We describe the dataset, explore what can be done using the data, and note the problems with the data that pose barri…

Expected Time of Arrival

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She Says Spacetime Points Are Just Where Fields Meet

This is an episode about “relationality” and what spacetime is made of.

Recursion into madness

Raymond Chandler would have loved generative AI

Tanya Luhrmann: The Experience Is Real. But Is God?

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Minimum temperatures in India are rising faster than maximum temperatures

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XKDR Newsletter - Issue 53

COVID income shocks • Renewable energy measurement• Karnataka’s subsidy delivery • Firm level GST • Foreign investment stall • Public finance in land policy • Big Ideas episodes, events & more

The Worst Case Is Still on the Table

Why removing RCP8.5 from the National Climate Assessment would be a serious mistake

Regional variations in seasonal temperatures

India is warming, but the magnitude of this warming varies widely by season and geography. Winter sees the most uniform warming across the country, while the monsoon shows the clearest evidence of sustained long-term warming.

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The First

For a brief period in the 6th century there was among the splinter sects of Khivan Nestorians a cult with a peculiar doctrine.

Fluorescent lamps (don’t) have ears

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Journal of Negative Results

The Experience Is Real. But Is God?

On prayer, attention, and the space between real and not real…

Tim Maudlin: Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH

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Is India's workforce feminising?

The number of women in India's workforce has grown after a period of decline. But does this increase translate into better, and better-paying jobs? We examine the sectors of the economy that are getting feminised.

More pre-teens in India have used the internet than people in their 40s

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What we can and cannot say about climate change and the Nepal disaster

Formal attribution is premature, but the collapse happened on a rapidly warming mountain in a valley losing its ice

Weight, wages and wayfinding

Our monthly newsletter covering the latest work, new platform features and key updates from Data For India.

Every Guest Who’s Been on Theories of Everything

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Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH

This is Part 2 of the previous lecture with Tim Maudlin (which went obscenely viral).

The will of the state

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Adrian Owen: Awake. Aware. Unable to Move.

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Manufacturing has played a shrinking role in most industrialised states in India

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