Year: 2016

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The Gates Foundation and the Anatomy of Philanthrocapitalism

Urvashi Aneja 23/03/2016

Without adequate safeguards and greater debate about private aid,...

A small bag of unroasted coffee beans. Credit: Isai Symens/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A Brief History of Coffee – the Brew of Empire, Sedition and Exile

Suvasini Ramaswamy 23/03/2016

Coffee has transformed wild mountainsides into plantations at the...

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India and China Must Move From Fragmented Geography to Himalayan Consensus

Nirupama Rao 22/03/2016

The idea of a shared space is the best...

Ulsoor Lake in Bengaluru. Credit: araswami/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Bangalore’s Dead Fish Are Just a Symptom of the Time Bomb that Lies Ahead

Anjali Vaidya 21/03/2016

Ulsoor Lake is one of the last strongholds in...

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois. The larger ring houses the Tevatron, a particle accelerator that operated until 2011, when it was shut because its capabilities had been superseded by the LHC. Credit: pedrik/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

All You Need to Know to Get Started on Particle Physics

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/03/2016

Because of the scale at which its experiments are...

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Dysphagia: It’s Like Being Waterboarded 24 Hours a Day

Bryn Nelson 20/03/2016

One morning, completely unexpectedly, Samantha Anderson woke to find...

A scanning electron microscope image of normal circulating human blood. In addition to the irregularly shaped leukocytes, both red blood cells and many small disc-shaped platelets are visible. Caption & credit: Wikimedia Commons

Crosstalk: How Two Modest Heroes Won the Battle Against Childhood Leukaemia

Sunil Laxman 20/03/2016

Y. Subbarow and Sidney Farber developed a friendship recognising...