Trunk call

A new e-magazine and iPad app, Unveiling the Ivory Trade, released by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, uses digital storytelling as a campaign tool to highlight the escalating illegal ivory trade. Unveiling the Ivory Trade brings together video, audio, illustrative graphics, visually inspiring photography and interesting text to create a dynamic digital storytelling experience.

150 years of humanitarian action: peace in war

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Mother tongue love

A Belarusian activist has been jailed for five days after staging a demonstration aimed at protecting the Belarusian language.

Look who’s watching

Google representatives have been asked to appear before European data protection officials over concerns about the way the site collects data on web users. The date for the inquisition has, however, not been fixed.

Chef, scientist come to blows

A bird scientist interviewed by celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for his TV series has posted a letter on Facebook saying she was portrayed in an “unfair light” on Fish Fight.

Father’s missive

“Dear Michael, Jim Watson and I have probably made a most important discovery,” so begins a letter written on March 19, 1953, by Francis Crick to his 12-year-old son.

Letters - March 15, 2013

A seductive mirage We at Auroville Consulting have closely followed the “crashing down” of solar prices as mentioned in the editorial, “Clouds over solar” (January 16-31, 2013), and would like to share a few observations.

Mark Lynas and the demeaning of science

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His master’s voice

Nearly three years after it came to power promising to uphold press freedom, Trinidad and Tobago’s government is under fire for demanding free airtime from broadcasters. Under a licensing agreement between radio and TV broadcasters and the telecommunications authority, the government may use 14 hours of airtime weekly to “reasonably declare any matter or event to be of public interest and require the concessionaire to broadcast”. But the clause was not invoked, until now.

Bad days for film

It is a sign of the times. And it does not bode well for film photography lovers. One of the most prestigious photo competitions will no longer accept film photographs. The call for entries for the 34th Nikon Photo Contest noted, “Scans of photographs taken with film cameras are not eligible.”