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13
Dec
2011
Bombay Times, Hindustan Times and plagiarism

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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17
Nov
2011
Bryan Appleyard on information and opinion

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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16
Nov
2011
Novels: the expression of the human condition

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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20
Sep
2011
Understanding the Present by Bryan Appleyard // science

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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