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On referring to female officers as 'madam sir'

Aug 9, 2022 4 min read

ET Lifestyle published a Twitter thread this morning about police officers referring to female superior officers as “sir” or as “madam sir”. I do find the practice offensive, because it signals an…

Why are the Nobel Prizes still relevant?

Oct 16, 2019 6 min read

Culture Op-eds Science Abhijit Banerjee Albert Einstein Appa Rao Podile Booker Prize Brian Keating Caltech Chien-Shiung Wu CV Raman Esther Duflo Fermilab Göran Hansson gender-based discrimination Hindutva Hugo Award impact factor Isaac Asimov John B Goodenough late capitalism Lise Meitner Margaret Atwood nationalism Nature journal Nobel laureates Nobel Prize prestige bias Prime Minister Narendra Modi sexism The Big Bang Theory Vera Rubin

Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The Wire. Around this time last week, the world had nine new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences (physics, chemistry and medicine), all bu…

Unseating Feynman, and Fermi

Oct 1, 2019 3 min read

Op-eds Science Enrico Fermi feminism Leo Szilard nuclear weapons Richard Feynman science and society sexism Szilard petition

Do physicists whitewash the legacy of Enrico Fermi the same way they do Richard Feynman? Feynman disguised his sexism as pranks and jokes, and writers have spent thousands of pages offering his virtu…

Some thoughts on the Mack/Dorigo Twitter exchange, and Zivkovic, Feyerabend, etc.

May 30, 2017 3 min read

Uncategorized Bora Zivkovic gender Geoff Marcy incommensurability Katherine Mack Paul Feyerabend privilege sexism sexual harassment sexuality Tommaso Dorigo women in STEM

Aspirants flock to role models. The 'underlying human' must not jeopardise their conversation by being a dick.…