Ever since it entered public consciousness in the 1980s, infrastructure has been synonymous with decline.

Great article on the illusion of confidence, the cognitive bias which inflates self-assessment.

Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave.

Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong

A new exhibition spotlights 70 examples of sensual imagery discovered in the Roman city

Every limb of him had a language.

Sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee helped shape a new view of sociology from an Indian perspective, contributing to the independence movement.

Yandex, the country’s biggest tech company, could look at India for growth