Active and recent initiatives of the Gnowledge Lab
A curated, regularly updated list of currently active and recent initiatives. Each entry links to a fuller description.
A pandemic-era extension of the CUBE program in which undergraduate biology investigations migrated into students’ homes, sustained through chatShaala conversations. The home-lab format has become a durable mode of project-based undergraduate research using simple model systems (snails, Drosophila, daphnia). See Undergraduates in Lockdown and follow-up CUBE writing for the published account.
A studio for home-schooling parents and children, and a club-house for children in an urban neighbourhood near Bhavani Peth, Pune. It develops as a “life-long kindergarten” experiment in studio-based, project-led learning. Follow the work in progress at the Making of Living Academy.
An online deployment of hedgedoc-nb — a fork of HedgeDoc extended to build knowledge graphs in markdown. Try it at nodebook.co.in; read more on the nodeBook project page.
A phonetic alphabet and OTF font designed for transcriptional unity across the world’s writing systems, with a browser plugin that renders web pages into naYana. See the naYana project page.
An ongoing series of essays at gnowgi.substack.com on the cognitive, cultural and pedagogical foundations of STEM education — connecting embodied cognition, free-software practice, and project-based learning to the question of how scientific habits develop.
A philosophy-of-science thread on objectivity, calibration, and trust in scientific instruments, media, and institutions. The position — calibrational realism — is laid out in the 2026 preprint From Truth to Trust: Negotiating Objectivity through Calibrated Instruments, Media, and Institutions by Nagarjuna G..
A series of research articles and an in-progress monograph on cognitive science, developing a layered Sensory-Motor-Network (SMN) account in which dexterous Halted-Action-Patterns (HAPs) ground the emergence of syntax, symbolic operation, and conscious action. See the Roots of beingHuman research thread for the underlying framework.