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Tag: public health

COVID-19, AMR and India

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Maybe it’s not a coincidence that India is today the site of the world’s largest COVID-19 outbreak and […]

April 22, 2021 Science

COVID-19, due process and an SNR problem

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At a press conference streamed live on March 18, the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that the […]

March 21, 2021 Scicomm

We did start the fire

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An ‘air purification’ ritual by Indian priests in Tokyo is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen done in a while.

October 23, 2016 Culture, Op-eds, Science

Why India’s rabies problem is especially bad

India bears the world’s heaviest rabies burden, according to a new study from the Global Alliance for Rabies […]

April 26, 2015 Science

Curious Bends – expanding nuclear power, the Bombay Blood Group, doubting the tobacco-cancer link & more

1. India’s new forest laws are criminalising tribes’ once-normal livelihoods “India has forest coverage of 23% and more […]

April 15, 2015 Science

Curious Bends – Indian Luddites, an academic career, the great forgetting and more

Curious Bends is a weekly newsletter about science, tech., data and India. Akshat Rathi and I curate it. […]

August 11, 2014 Science
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