My last post notwithstanding, I emerged from Captain America: Civil War neither Team Cap nor Team Iron Man but thoroughly Team T’Challa, the Black Panther. Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa has perhaps […]
By Milly Sil At Rutgers University India is a country possessing rich cultural heritage and folk music has been an integral part of her culture. However, the folk singers of […]
When Quentin Tarantino’s Vulture interviewer expressed surprise at his fondness for The Newsroom, the Aaron Sorkin drama many critics loved to hate, he replied: “Who the fuck reads TV reviews? […]
In the first part of my exploration of the Fiction Fallacy, I argued that we cannot derive knowledge of the external world from fictions whatsoever. Now, it may occur to […]
In the day to day tedium of life, I often turn to fiction for comfort. I appeal to fictions in part because they help pass the time, and also because […]
For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars, speculative […]
Of all the scientists to come, alive, or dead On the list of contributions, two names march ahead Newton and Darwin, forever supreme Best minds to roam Earth, lovely and […]
What’s the purpose of literature? Of fiction? Of course it’s enjoyable – it sweeps our emotions this way and that and allows us to ‘experience’ so much beyond our everyday life. […]
OK… OK… Hear me out on this one: Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an alien, or at very least working for an alien race known as the Mi-go who are described […]
Last week, world-famous author Salman Rushdie appeared at Rutgers University as part of the English Department’s new Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. Hundreds of eager students, faculty, staff, and community […]
Applied Sentience 