Figuring Things Out

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Every time you see the Modern Times, you notice something new. Who, for instance, designed this neat poster for the "funniest mov...

This Friday will see the emergence of a new bank backed by China - the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The Americans are not ...

An excellent article explaining the work of this year's Nobel Prize winner in Economics - Jean Triole. Cassidy, John (2014): WHY JEA...

Yesterday, I saw the movie "Haider". I liked it. For the first time Bollywood seems to have made an attempt to present a ba...

Another corruption scandal has come to light. Once again it is a foreign court that informs us that bribes were paid to Indian officials fo...

An interesting article on ageing: " Why I hope to Die at 75 ". ---------------------------------------------------------- ...

A Drug & a Hairy Woman -- https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/doctors-chance-appointment-hairy-woman-215500968.html Medical Devices - D...

George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" (1938) is an interesting read. For a book written before WW-2, it has a very conte...

The 'Jaipur Foot' looks so far away... An amazing video on the latest bionic limbs -

It has been an unusual combination of summer and monsoon this year. The dry heat lasted for a lot longer in May-June, and then, after a fe...

Last year, India set a new record in wheat production -- 95.85 million tonnes. This took the total food-grain production in the country to ...

In one of my favorite passages in the Mahabharata, the great sage Brihadaswa stops by to visit the hermitage of the Pandavas, within a few...

Drugs based on antibodies have been in use for a long time now. So far, almost all these antibody-based drugs have been derived from anima...

This is one of the best selfie's I've come across. Last week a random simian in Indonesia triggered a huge debate on copyright a...

When it comes to productivity and export-competitiveness of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), clearly some states in India fare a lot bette...

This fruit-fly ( Bacterocera dorsalis ) has cost Indian farmers and horticulturists Rs. 50 Crores in export earnings this year. Quaran...

How did Finland become home to Nokia? On the face of it seems like an unlikely picture - a frigid, Nordic country as large as Thailand ...

It is a coincidence that two of the books I have 'read' over the past weeks have both been on Africa. The first was Chinua Ach...

There has just been a shoot-out in the FIFA World Cup. Brazil has squeaked past Chile in a tournament that is now almost completely domina...