61 days ago by churumuri

Hindustan Times had an ethical malfunction 15 years ago, when its then editor V.N. Narayanan was revealed to have plagiarised over a thousand words of his Sunday column from Bryan Appleyard‘s piece in the Sunday Times of London the previous week. (Narayanan was let go without a formal explanation fr ...

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86 days ago by Anjali

The scientist is on a fact-finding mission only as long as he is at his bench. The minute he steps away from his bench – it’s an immoral world. - Bryan Appleyard, at an RSA event discussing his book The Brain is Wider than the Sky

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87 days ago by nicola

Campbell's Soup I (1968), low-res snapshot so it can (hopefully) be considered Fair Use, via Wikipedia A couple of weeks ago I read the cover article of the Nov/Dec issue of Intelligent Life, " A One-Man Market," by Bryan Appleyard. (It was excerpted in the Economist.) It's about Andy Warhol and the ...

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144 days ago by PC

For all the denunciations of the rhetoric of Carl Sagan and other popularizers, I found the ending rather hollow: I shall not be, at the last, alone. i.e. He discards orthodox religion (to him, magic) as well as environmentalism and any other substitute derived from science; but all he offers in ret ...

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