Arindam Basu

Plaudit is an innovative commenting service for academic articles

## Plaudit What if we were able to 'like' an article and indicate why or what aspect of a paper we like, and share that as well? Plaudit is that kind of an app. They have an app for Firefox and Chrom…

Karl Friston and the free energy principle

##### He believes that if one person has an idea or a question or project going on, the best way to learn about it is for the whole group to come together, hear the person, and then everybody gets a…

Storytelling to teach history

Listen to this history teacher from Wellington New Zealand talking about story telling to teach New Zealand history. Here is the audio link:

How Trump reshaped American democracy through his tweets

A fantastic infographic and social media analysis of Trump tweets in today's NYT, here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/02/us/politics/trump-twitter-presidency.html I hope twitter does no…

Linked research on decentralised web

A giant list and a great document on what's going on in the field of academia for blockchain: https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web

Moving from centralised to decentralised web is so much more liberating ....

## Taste of digital freedom This started a few days earlier on a Mastodon post, a friend suggested what alternatives exist that look similar to Medium but not with Medium's constraint or chaining to…

Steemit/steem and future of academic publishing

## Steem and academia Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Steemit is a steem based content authoring tool. Using a simple yet powerful set of markdown features, this opens up channels of communication to bu…

Getting my head around steemit architecture with busy.org and dlike, it's a fascinating world! #busy

Arxiv paper on urban architecture

##### This is a paper from arXiv that lists what variables makes cities great. A great use of OpenStreetMap. They have used big data to assess and analyse urban form and evolution. They have used osm…

A summary report on India's public health

Patralekha Chatterjee (twitter: @patralekha2011) has written a summary report on India's recent efforts in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). It's an eye opener in the sense that with only 2.5% G…