‘Difference Is the One Thing That We Have in Common’

'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'.

Is a vaccine one of the factors that will contribute to the end of the Pandemic?

The covid-19 pandemic began in China in November 2019 and spread globally by March 2020.[2] In India Vaccine research, trials, and production were ramped up gradually. The Covishield vaccine trial was completed by December 2020 and the mass vaccination program started in January 2021. The mortality was far more in western and European countries (despite better health infrastructure) than in Asi...

When is one thing equal to some other thing?

One can’t do mathematics for more than ten minutes without grappling, in some way or other, with the slippery notion of equality. Slippery, because the way in which objects are presented to us hardly ever, perhaps never, immediately tells us–without further commentary–when two of them are to be considered equal. We even see this, for example, if we try to define real numbers as decimals, and th...

“Everything within a Circle Is One Thing”

circled, enframed,” wrote 20th-century American mythologist and lecturer Joseph Campbell. This month’s cover art, A Timeless Symbiosis, uses the motif of circles to connect animals and humans. Bindu Viswanathan, the artist who created the painting, is also a lecturer and biostatistician at the University of Texas, Austin. Many of her paintings inspire viewers to think about the fuller connectio...

One Thing is Certain in Design: Design is Uncertain

The uncertainty in design is rooted in the nature of the design problem: the recursive evolution of design problem along with design solutions and related design knowledge (Zeng, 2004; Zeng & Cheng, 1991; Zeng & Gu, 1999). Design uncertainty takes many forms; one most acknowledged form is its unpredictability in that the future decisions are uncertain in its behaviour, in its value, and in its ...