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Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2011
ZOOLOGY
Dog was made in China
Letters
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2010
Zero-calorie sweetener needs stirring
Rising power of the knowledge commons
@Lathajishnu Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
How many of the Einsteins who exist now will be allowed to learn physics? That is the question Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, threw at a selected audience in Delhi last month.
How competent is Indian science?
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
When six of India’s top scientific academies were asked by Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh in March to assess the feasibility and safety of genetically modified (GM) crops and their regulation, it was expected their evaluation would help resolve the highly contentious question of growing GM food crops in the country. Instead, their report released September end has turned into a scandal for Indian science.
From the blurbs
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2010
The Richness of Life
Science & Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2010
FORESTRY
Burn and slash
Letters
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2010
The great telecom hoax
I can’t understand why the telecom company, Aircel, has ventured into such a campaign and what it aims to achieve from this (‘1,411 tigers, and unanswered questions’, March 16-31, 2010). Initially, I had thought that the company is trying to lure customers by introducing schemes such as diverting part of the revenue earned from Aircel calls into saving tigers.
League of extraordinary men
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2010
On a damp November day in 1660, 12 London University dons listened in rapt attention as Christopher Wren, a young astronomer, lectured about the moon.
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Issue Date: Feb 15, 2010
Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia edited by Douglas E. Haynes, Abigail McGowan, Tirthankar Roy, Haruka Yanagisawa, OUP, Rs 750
