A workshop was held at Al-Bukhari International University to formulate a new curriculum for the history and philosophy of science. Scholars from 3 countries participated. Here is the announcement for the workshop, and an earlier one on the Multiversity site. The issue is part of the decolonisation agenda, but was precipitated when…
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To teach science one needs to know the right stories of how science developed. That is one needs a truthful history of science, not the trash history one gets from the West. Strange that all those who talk of teaching students to innovate can only blindly imitate the syllabus from Western universities!
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For the last six months I have been repeatedly answering the question about superluminal neutrinos. I post below one such response from Sept 2011. Einstein was, of course, wrong, but not for this reason. He (and most other physicists after him) wrongly thought relativity matters only for speeds close to light. That…
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Colonialism used church propaganda to inculcate the myth of Western superiority among the colonised. It is high time to break this dirty and evil myth, which is still propagated by our schools and universities. Had the British not got Mahatma Gandhi assassinated (through Savarkar), to ensure Nehru’s supremacy, we would have got real…
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Many people think that the system of secretive refereeing (euphemistically called “peer review”) serves as a system of quality control. Whole groups of nations (such as the Organization of Islamic Conference) have formed their science policies on the basis of that belief. (See my paper on “Benchmarking science” for the…
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Another way to see the religious bias in present-day science (see previous post) is to look at the way it is used to attack Islam. (Note: specifically science vs Islam, not science vs “religion”.) See my paper on “Islam and Science” Indian Journal of Secularism, 15(2), 2011, pp. 14-29. For example, consider…
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The following papers were published in July on my teaching experiments on calculus. (Should have blogged about it long ago.) “Teaching mathematics with a new philosophy”, Part 1: “Formal mathematics as biased metaphysics”, Science and Culture 77(7-8) (2011) pp. 275-80 Part 2: “Calculus without limits” Science and Culture 77(7-8) (2011) pp.…
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Now that the floods in Thailand are over, it seems decent to put up these pictures from Kambhoj (Cambodge) misspelt in English as Cambodia. One can judge the value of colonial education by this picture of a sunken school, while a traditional pagoda sits above water. Here is a…
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My response to Wildavsky appeared in Global Higher Ed blog at http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/decolonising-our-universities-time-for-change/ The conversation in the Sun has been updated to 15 Sep 2011, at http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=61. The response to EPW appeared in EPW 46(34) 20 Aug 2011. This seriously modified my original response, which was as follows.
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This talk announced below was to have been webcast live. Update: The videos were long ago taken down by USM, and my versions do not work any more. The videos are now posted at Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEK1FCrLHjU Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFf5co3G3R8 Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomZU949Cnw Anyway, the video is now online at…