SynTalk

SynTalk is a freewheeling interdisciplinary talk show with a philosophical approach to understanding the world from a long term perspective. In Turn XIII.

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#SynTalk_BTL: #SynTalk recorded its 197th episode (#TART, The Atypical Reality Types). Thank you.

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Tivoli's founder, Georg Carstensen (b. 1812 – d. 1857), obtained a five-year charter to create Tivoli by telling King Christian VIII that "when the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics". #Tivoli_Gardens

https://t.co/7JtqV7vw89

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I firmly believe
that nature created
and then looked.

#Prabhakar_Kolte

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Turn XII ends.
Turn XIII begins.

The first SynTalk episode was recorded on July 12, 2014 (#TOOB, The Ontology Of Beauty). More here: https://t.co/5DgPEti9vf

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Dr. Nayan Chakraborty (Ph.D., NCBS-TIFR) was awarded the 2026 SynTalk Medal yesterday. The third out of a total of 177 to be awarded annually until 2200 AD.

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UPDATE: Dr. Nayan Chakraborty (NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore) has been awarded the 2026 SynTalk Medal.

CITATION: Dr. Chakraborty is awarded this Medal for his novel interdisciplinary re-modeling, experimentation and study of the emergence of 'proto-cells' from certain specific abiotic molecules. His work itself is fecund, and could trigger conceptual resolution in a number of areas at the cusp of biology (& more). We hope that Dr. Chakraborty would continue to work creatively (with a playful disregard for disciplinary boundaries) to further our understanding of the world from a long term perspective.

PhD (2025): ‘Compartmentalization Dynamics at the Origins of Life’

ADVISOR: Dr. Shashi Thutupalli

https://t.co/B5PVWGrlGi

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Ahem.

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Update: The 2026 SynTalk Medal nominations deadline stands revised to April 30, 2026.

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Update: We are pleased to share that the 2026 SynTalk Medal nominations are now open. Let’s find the 3rd!

https://t.co/C8Z19SPtDW

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Stampede

You are the product of a stampede
Of boots and uneven trampling
Of jostling and slipping
And mashed up sweaty bodies slithering.

Of time getting bashed up, and torn
Flung aside, like in a violent crash
When tar thrashed your flesh and bone
As you lay drooling beat up and au mash.

The thing is. That.

When a stampede is happening
With you in the eye, you hear and see
Flashes of lashing rains somehow
En you’re pulped up, yes, but it’s wow.

(Lee Krasner, Polar Stampede, 1960)

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#SynTalk_BTL: #SynTalk records its 194th episode (#TTEHOW, The To-Each-Her-Own World) today. Thank you.

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They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. (Fair Weather, Dorothy Parker)

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Yes, sure.

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Is that Trump?
Is that Mike Tyson?

https://t.co/oHctkmZSaf

(@mohite_vaish, @sparuniisc)

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A4 Posters: The weblink below has a couple of printable poster links. It would be wonderful if you are able to (colour) print and pin the poster on a notice board close to you. Or share them electronically. Let’s find the 3rd!

https://t.co/C8Z19SPtDW

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The disciplines (& SynTalkrs) on #TPLOD are: evolutionary biology (Dr. Anand Krishnan, JNCASR, Bangalore), philosophy & biology (Prof. Sahotra Sarkar, UT Austin, Austin) & conservation studies (Dr. Pankaj Sekhsaria, IIT Bombay, Mumbai).

https://t.co/6BUJODfqP5

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The latest (& 193rd) SynTalk episode, #TPLOD (The Plunge Lines Of Diversity), is now on Apple Podcasts. Listen in:

https://t.co/XmFV9uHWQM

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The disciplines (& SynTalkrs) are: neuroscience (Dr. Sufyan Ashhad, NCBS, Bangalore), econophysics (Prof. Anirban Chakraborti, JNU, New Delhi) & philosophy (Rev. Fr. Dr. Mathew Chandrankunnel, JIS University, Kolkata).

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More on the #TRAP (The Rhythms And Perturbations) episode is here, with episode blurb, & SynTalkr’s intellectual bios:

https://t.co/d9ZShT6URA

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The 193rd episode of SynTalk is online! The SoundCloud link to #TPLOD (The Plunge Lines Of Diversity) is below. Listen in (#SynTalk_Episode):

https://t.co/99yzDTKqBD

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#SynTalk_BTL: #SynTalk recorded its 193rd episode (#TPLOD, The Plunge Lines Of Diversity). Thank you.