The Omnivore Scientist
Sayani SarkarMusings on natural history, science, history, philosophy, and art. A polymath's journal. Once upon a time, I was in grad school tinkering with proteins.
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On Failure
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004), Brooklyn, New York, 1947
I hear the thud. The man must have been so tired of whatever banalities piled up like unwashed laundry in his life, he just couldn’t take anymore. So, in 1947, he goes to...
Curiosity, Not Third Places, Will Save Our Conversations
“Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère” by Édouard Manet (1882)
It is almost two in the night in Calcutta. I must go to bed. But I must also put this down in ink before the night gives way to the first light. For consider this as a moonlighted dispatc...
Gordian Knot of the Free Will Debate
Hamlet, Adolf Hoffmeister, 1931, watercolor and pencil on paper. To be or not to be represents two edges of the free will question.
Do we have free will? Or is our ability to make choices entirely an illusion? We, who have been swayed by...
Embassytown, Shadow Twinning, and My Conversation with ChatGPT
Pandora, 1896, John William Waterhouse
It began with tattoos.
Embassytown by China Miéville is a science fiction novel set on the planet Arieka, where humans have established a colony. The native insectoid aliens, the Ariekei, also known...
Pickles, Posto, and Pokora: Forgotten Tastes of Bengal
Note: This was written in late summer of 2024 as a reminder of what my grandmother and her life taught me over many years. I did not get the chance to publish this before. She died on 1st July 2025.
The April sun is streaming through the...
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