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The answer is an absolute yes… For the last couple of days, I have been reading this insane book called “What if”, by Randall Munroe. The book deals with serious answers for questions like “How many arrows need to be shot to blot the sun as it happens in the 300 movie?”, or “How fast you have to stir your tea to increase its temperature?”, or “If...

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Ever wondered why everyone you know is a goddamn engineer, at least by education. I have been wondering for a long time. If everyone is an engineer, then what’s the point. There are times when I was wondering whether I am an engineer myself. A capitalistic society thrives based on the balance of different goods and services produced by people. I know that’s true, that’s why I bel...

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About three months back, I read somewhere that Church organizations in the USA tried to lobby to remove the theory of evolution and adding that the world is created some 10,000 years ago in science textbooks and history books. It got sizeable support. They even came close to implementing the teaching of both creationism and evolution as science. Honestly, my first reaction to that was laughter in...

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Science is a really vague and all-encompassing term. If you think it’s not, then you have a serious misunderstanding of science. I want to expound on this a bit more. There used to be a time that the study of astronomy and certain parts of physics is theology, medicine is considered doctrine, chemistry is considered alchemy, and business, economics, and design are considered art. Every on...

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