Nithyanand Rao

@NithyanandRao

Incoming graduate student / Science Studies Program

Bengaluru, India
Joined September 2013
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    7 Jun 2017
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    Thank you. Just to add that I had a co-winner, my friend

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    Mar 15

    Who will write the worst book about the deeper meaning of the coronavirus?

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    Feb 2

    Thanks for the careful reading of the various works that have been written about the connection between colonialism and astronomy, especially in Hawaii.

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    28 Mar 2019

    Jean Dreze is a truly great Indian, a scholar who is at once brilliant and compassionate. Here’s a profile of him and his work:

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    15 Oct 2018

    My wife faces a union minister, his 97 lawyers. It takes special courage to do that, i write, as i try to match that courage. The consequences of sexual harassment have fallen entirely on India’s women. The men must step up or step aside.

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  6. 21 Aug 2018

    Thanks immensely for your time yesterday!

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    I met him yesterday and didn’t connect him to the Kysanur story. What a piece. What an understated person.
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  7. 21 Aug 2018

    Honoured!

    And now, one of my fave. longform science writers talks about how he wrote his very interesting piece on the Kyasanur Forest Disease
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    13 Aug 2018

    Read this amazing story

    "If the half-ton of C-4 plastic explosive riding alongside him didn’t kill him, the Islamic State might." Read the real life story of the undercover agent who infiltrated and the most impt counterterrorism force you've never heard of.
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    30 Jul 2018

    As approaches, here is an article on the grand event. In this short article C.S.Aravinda discusses what happens at an ICM, a brief history of the ICM, and the role of Indian mathematicians in the IMU and the ICMs.

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    16 Jul 2018

    America is the world's largest weapons exporter. I was curious to see what this looks like over time, so I mapped the flows of arms transfers leaving the U.S. from 1950 to 2017. The data comes from 's Arms Transfers Database. Full video here:

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    17 Jul 2018
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    Thank you and for writing. Plagiarism is considered the greatest crime in science, similar to a robbery. While this isn't new or unexpected, it is indeed embarrassing and very disappointing. I am glad to know that this is getting coverage.

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    16 Jul 2018

    Joint Director of Zoological Survey of India plagiarised book and published false data; former directors also implicated in this embarrassment reports

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    14 Jun 2018

    In Kerala, teams have their own buses 😀😀😀

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    12 Jun 2018

    . interviewed Juan Maldacena, one of the most highly regarded string theorists of our time, for (with generous help from ) Check it out:

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    12 Jun 2018

    Big, big interview with one of the biggest names in String Theory, Juan Maldacena. In conversation with the redoubtable . via -Wi

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    30 May 2018

    Very important story for Nipah response in India by Nithyanand Rao. The Absence of Evidence for Nipah in Fruit Bats Is Not Evidence of Absence via

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    29 May 2018

    Some of the first science books I read as a teenager were Carl’s. I can’t wait to bury myself in this. Congrats .

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    29 May 2018

    The absence of evidence for Nipah in fruit bats Is not evidence of absence an excellent report by /

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    3 May 2018

    Next week we will have and talk to students on 'INO: The story so far'. Guys in Bangalore, do come :)

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    28 Mar 2018

    Meet the man who was under the hood, electrocuted and urinated upon by US forces at Abu Ghraib.

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    2 Mar 2018

    In 2017, from won in Science & Innovation category for their joint contribution to: “Why India’s Most Sophisticated Science Experiment Languishes Between a Rock and a Hard Place”. Read:

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