Book review: Science in Indian Media by Dilip Salwi

Indian media is not known to pay any more attention to science news than is strictly necessary. This book cites a survey conducted by Delhi-based …

Banning spam

The uk government has proposed a crackdown on the much-hated menace of e-mail spam. It intends to check those indulging in the insidious practice …

Book review: Garbage Wars: The Struggle For Environmental Justice By David Naguib Pellow

Sociologist David Naguib Pellow has come out with an engrossing account of Chicago from the perspective of what surrounds us all: garbage. It is …

Book review: Inventing Global Ecology by Michael Lewis

In the 1950s and 1960s India used to import not only subsidised sewing needles and milk, but also wildlife conservation science from the US. …

Snippets

Lonely foragers group

A book on the history of spices

Bush, global warming and media

Analysing Polavaram irrigation project

More facts, more doubts

Monsanto ups the Bt cotton ante with a feel-good survey

DDT legacy

Residue causes foetal loss

"The collapse of Globalism and the reinvention of the world"

Fizzy logic

Uncelebrated entrepreneurs

Book notice: Samagra Vikas

Diverse: this word best describes the compilation. The sources from which the articles are drawn are diverse -- The Hindu, New Scientist, Span …

Website review: Stargazers' delight

http://www.science.nasa.gov - This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-maintained website should be of immense interest to space-…

Bok review: Heady stuff

Conservation and Society by Kamaljit S Bawa

Film review: A planet of hope

Kalahandi: A Planet of Herbs / Director: Amarendra Kishore / 28 minutes / English/Hindi

Cocooned in secrecy

Exposing America's toxic burden

Pesticides Action Network's report says Americans carry high pesticide levels in their bodies

Stars' tantrums on cola controversy

News Snippets

Zyprexa, of pharma major Elli Lilly, promoted for off-label uses

Radiation talk

Are mobile phones safe?

Reference guide on the national parks and sanctuaries in Maharashtra