SUV ads: Dangerous city animals
If an alligator could drive, what vehicle would it choose to go to a party? None other than the Tata Safari.The query in the latest Tata Safari …
Independent initiative: Film festival
'Quotes from the Earth' is an independent festival of films on the environment. A unique event in that it is the first time that such a festival …
Iraq in the unconscious
'Embedded' -- as in reporters assigned to accompany military units during the Iraq war -- beat out 'blog' and 'SARS' as the top word of 2003, …
Book review: Edison's Eve by Gaby Wood
After he was done with the phonograph and the electric bulb, the American scientist Thomas Alva Edison focused his attention on a living doll …
Unknown agencies behind medical journals
Medical journals are the bibles of the healing profession. They command peer respect, and possess immense reach among doctors. But, as the uk-…
Mapping Food
Online>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1276177353/food-an-atlas-0
Forlorn in the USA
About 12 million American families last year couldn't afford to buy food. 32 per cent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one …
No entry
Looks like the executive committee of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held at Geneva in December this year, is choosy …
Eco-warriors
Even as the us goes global in its agenda to tackle religious terrorism, domestic media has started zooming in on militancy of a new kind -- eco-…
Book review: Hands around Everest
National boundaries can serve as links rather than instruments of division -- so expounds this book. Cooperation between nations, it says, is the …
Website review: http://www.inequality.org
The global divide in income, health and wealth has only widened further in this era of unregulated capitalism. And there are no signs of it being …
Transparency International Global Barometer Survey
If you had a magic wand and you could eliminate corruption from one of the following institutions, what would your first choice be? " The …
USA - all love lost
Neither the World Bank nor the US and the United Nations (un) are popular around the world. While there is still some hope of the World Bank …
Shockwave over Iran
Over the years, overseas-based Persian language satellite tv broadcasters have won over the hearts of a number of Iranians. And to make matters …
Film review: The turtle people
The Turtle People is ostensibly about a fishing community in village Kolavipalayam, Kerala, that help Olive Ridley turtles. Sea turtles are an …
Book notice: The last forests of Bangladesh
According to records, Bangladesh's forest cover has shrunk to a meagre six per cent from 20 per cent in 1927. The southern mangroves are perhaps …
Book notice: Indigenous Honeybees of the Himalayas
Nepal's native honeybees are an acknowledged vital cog in maintaining the region's biodiversity, as they naturally pollinate an assortment of …
Lascaux caves threatened by microbes
The Lascaux caves in France, which host fabulous prehistoric art, are being threatened by harmful microorganisms again. The invading fungus, a …
Website review: http://www.yaw.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/index.html
This web site is the brainchild of UK scientists, who have hit upon an effective method to counter the controversy surrounding the names of the …
Out for political mileage
The recent events in the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Kerala has had an impact on the state government. Why else would it crank up its …
Website review: http://earthtrends.wri.org/
A must-bookmark site for anyone interested in environmental and development issues. It offers up-to-date facts and figures as well as analyses of …
Facebook's wild and severe side effects
Facebook is undermining democracies and leading to shallow and degraded public discourse
Living inside social media eco chambers: Ideological conditioning through information bias
Combined with rampant misinformation that circulates through the internet, most users dive deep into an ideological pitfall: They end up building …
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 …
No laughing matter
Activists are increasingly resorting to attention-grabbing techniques to bring development issues into the public domain