Samanth Subramanian

@Samanth_S

My JBS Haldane biography is out in 2019-20: S&S-India, Atlantic-UK, W. W. Norton-US. Journalism in , , , . DM me story ideas!

Cambridge, England
Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2012.

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    1. pro 2019.

    The Indian edition of "A Dominant Character," my biography of JBS Haldane, is now available for pre-order. Copies ship Dec. 10. Please RT / pass the word on! (And buy!) It's also a good moment to answer the question I'm often asked: Why Haldane? [1 / n]

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  2. Voters defending the BJP even after this vile campaign—in which ministers + CMs called for citizens to be shot—are picking undisguised hatred, violence + manipulation. You can’t hide behind a desire for economic reform or anti-Congress-ism anymore. You’re a rabid zealot—own it

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    2. velj

    Still my favourite history meme.

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  4. 2. velj

    Highly enjoyable conversation with about JBS, about biography-writing, and about the most elegant sentence Haldane ever wrote.

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    31. sij

    "The process thrives on freshness and play, and it holds a sense of limitless possibility — of producing many, many things we never knew out of the few things we do know."

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    30. sij

    "...quizzing today is... an exercise in nimble thinking, and possibly the only forum where the entirety of your life—everything you’ve ever seen, read, tasted, heard, heard of, or lived through—can be marshalled as pure knowledge."

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  7. 30. sij

    Galleys. So beautiful. . Out in the US in July 2020.

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    Oh, what an absolutely delightful essay by about curiosity, discovery, and yes, quizzes.

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    28. sij

    A friend once suggested that, while working out the correct answer to a good question, we reassemble + extrapolate what we _do_ know. It’s similar to the way we, as humans, create any new knowledge in the first place. The joy of that is unparalleled.

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    28. sij

    Quizzing is astonishingly egalitarian: everyone in the room knows something that no one else knows. And there’s something so beautifully human about the process — even in, or especially in, the frailties of the mind. [4 / 5]

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    28. sij

    It has become more capacious, more deductive — calling for nimble thinking, not recall. I’m forever trying to convince people that the best kinds of quizzing involve working out the answer — something I illustrate in the piece with one of my favourite examples. [3 / 5]

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    28. sij

    I’ve quizzed everywhere I’ve lived: open quizzes in India, Quiz Bowl at American universities, a weekly pub quiz in Colombo, the Dublin Quiz League in Ireland, on holiday in Amsterdam or Madrid, online via . Through these decades, quizzing itself changed. [2 / 5]

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    28. sij

    I try not to write about myself, but talked me into a about my life spent quizzing. Here it is: 6,000 words trying to get at what it is about quizzing that I love so, so deeply: [1 / 5]

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    28. sij
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    28. sij

    Anyone who's ever gatecrashed a pub quiz team, got into an argument at the parents' school quiz night, or been proud of knowing the answer to a single question in Brain of Britain... this is for you. By quizmaster

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    Wonderful from ⁦⁩ on quizzing: “an exercise in nimble thinking, & possibly the only forum where the entirety of your life – everything you’ve ever seen, read, tasted, heard, heard of, or lived through – can be marshalled as pure knowledge.”

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    28. sij

    'We don’t always need to remember facts any more . . .But that’s precisely why, in a quiz, it’s gratifying to excavate answers from our memories,' Fascinating insight into the life of a quizzer and the pleasures of flexing memory in a digital age by for

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    28. sij
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  19. 28. sij

    A friend once suggested that, while working out the correct answer to a good question, we reassemble + extrapolate what we _do_ know. It’s similar to the way we, as humans, create any new knowledge in the first place. The joy of that is unparalleled.

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  20. 28. sij

    Quizzing is astonishingly egalitarian: everyone in the room knows something that no one else knows. And there’s something so beautifully human about the process — even in, or especially in, the frailties of the mind. [4 / 5]

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  21. 28. sij

    It has become more capacious, more deductive — calling for nimble thinking, not recall. I’m forever trying to convince people that the best kinds of quizzing involve working out the answer — something I illustrate in the piece with one of my favourite examples. [3 / 5]

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