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@AparnaPallavi1 Letters - May 16-31, 2013
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
Dam smart
Letters - May 1-15, 2013
Issue Date: May 15, 2013
Dubious Distinction
This is with reference to the editorial, “A green facade” (April 1-15, 2013). I am doing an investigative project about green buildings and rating systems in India as part of my journalism studies. I have been digging for opposing views on LEED rating in India but there has been none. It was a delight to find an article criticising these ratings.
Veggies delight
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
Ram Oraon blames his grandfather for his frail health and for much of his life spent battling poverty. He has watched his two brothers die young. “They always had poor health,” says the 60-year-old marginal farmer from Malhan Bhuiyadih village near Ranchi.
Myth of onion
Posted on: 16 Feb, 2013
The humble vegetable’s price is not a lethal weapon against politicians but their victim
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2013
Material Sciences
Live wire
Here is a wire you can stretch, bend or cut and it would still work. Scientists have created the self-healing, elastic wire using liquid metal and a polymer. Small tunnels are bored in polymer sheath and are filled with a liquid alloy of indium and gallium, forming a liquid metal wire inside the stretchable sheath.
Plants have proteins
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2012
When people hear calls for 25 per cent less industrial cattle ranching, or even calls for “Meat-Free Mondays”, their usual misgivings centre around protein. Protein needs vary somewhat with age, between men and women, infants, children, and during pregnancy and lactation, but a safe rule of thumb is 50 g/day.
Bitter gets better
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2012
BITTER gourd is one of the most disliked vegetables because of its taste. But given its nutritional and medicinal value one is often forced to eat it. However, over the past three decades, this vegetable’s bitterness has reduced, thanks to the hybrid varieties created by scientists in India. These hybrids—pusa do mausmi, pusa vishesh, arka harit and many others—are commonly available and differ in their shape, size, colour and taste.
