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Notes: Is Processed Food All Bad?
On building better heuristics
Sep 16 • 
Hiya Jain
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Notes: A Brief History of Germ Theory
On why we should update our priors
Sep 1 • 
Hiya Jain
35
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August 2025

Why Is Tuberculosis So Hard to Eradicate?
On the uphill battle against the world’s deadliest infection
Aug 16 • 
Hiya Jain
19

June 2025

Notes: Fertility in India
On being a participant in the crisis + some big ideas
Jun 18 • 
Hiya Jain
4
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Cottage-Core Biotech
On amateur biology, curiosity, and open-science with Sebastian Cocioba
Jun 6 • 
Hiya Jain
7

May 2025

Real Time Science
On the path towards a dynamic scientific culture
May 3 • 
Hiya Jain
 and 
Samarth Jajoo
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April 2025

Clear Blue Waters for the ‘Sea Turtle’
On Maintaining a Talent Pipeline in America
Apr 22 • 
Hiya Jain
9
1

March 2025

A Brief History of Painkillers
On the arduous road to making pain a choice
Mar 6 • 
Hiya Jain
3
1

July 2024

Notions of Mathematical Aesthetics
On beauty as a tool towards epistemic ends.
Jul 1, 2024 • 
Hiya Jain
4

June 2023

In Pursuit of the Present
On impressionism and the philosophy of now
Jun 5, 2023 • 
Hiya Jain
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