Lingua franca
Featured image credit: allypark/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Guilt can be just as disabling as arrogance, however. The political good which Spivak has done far outweighs the fact that she leads a well-heeled life in the…
August 2016
ToI successfully launches story using image from China
Has the prime-mover of our space programme been taken hostage by the consequences of not separating space research from defence research?
Corrected: ‘Life’s Greatest Secret’ by Matthew Cobb
‘Life’s Greatest Secret’ focuses on those efforts to explore the DNA that were only a sideshow in ‘The Gene’ but possess intrigues of their own.
Anthropocene
It’s an epoch whose centre of attention de facto is the human even as the attention makes us more conscious of the other multitudes with which we share this universe.
UCal Irvine’s ‘fifth force’ farce
If a journalist buys into a UCI press release about some kind of ‘confirmation’ of a fifth force, and which is subsequently found to be simply false, an editor wouldn’t be faced with a tough…