Opinion: Stephen Hawking – Mind the Mind

I set my Whatsapp status, on Wednesday, to a screenshot of a tweet showing the coincidence of the birth and death dates of scientific geniuses Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. A contact’s comment on the photo was “Never knew him” referring to Hawking whose death had been announced early that morning. Given I... Read More

Opinion

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March 18, 2018

The scientist who defied death | See the top 10 viral tweets from last week

Viral tweets just make Twitter utterly delightful; so we thought to curate our top 10 (there’s a bonus and then some) from last week. Some of the tweets will have you shedding a tear; others will make you bowl over with laughter; altogether they’ll give you an idea about what Twitter talked about during the... Read More

Thinking Through

Stephen Hawking, twitter., Viral tweets

August 29, 2016

Stephen Hawking might be headed for a Nobel prize after all

Over four decades ago, renowned English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Stephen Hawking proposed that not everything that comes in contact with a black hole succumbs to its unfathomable nothingness and immense gravity. Photons (tiny particles of light) are sometimes ejected, robbing the black hole of an infinitesimal amount of energy, and this gradual loss of mass... Read More

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