Month: June 2018

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Do Writers Care for What Psychology Has to Say About the Curse of Knowledge?

Thomas Manuel 27/06/2018

While the marriage of cognitive science and literature is...

Water drawn from the handpump has a pronounced reddish tinge (left). The water bought from a private seller is much clearer. Credit: Disha Shetty

Thoothukudi’s Villages Are Paying a Price That No One Is Counting

Disha Shetty 27/06/2018

While the government sat back and watched as the...

The Kanikonna tree in full bloom. Credit: Neha Sinha

The Case of the Confusing Kanikonna Trees

Geetha Ramaswami and Suhel Quader 26/06/2018

In Kerala, the festival of Vishu in mid-April is...

A table from O’Shaughnessy’s 1841 report. Credit: Report on the investigation of cases of real and supposed poisoning

How Cannabis Jumped from ‘Colonial Science’ to Western Medicine – in Calcutta

Sujaan Mukherjee 26/06/2018

William Brooke O’Shaughnessy’s investigations at a Calcutta hospital into...

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Keep Blueprints ‘At Home’ When Partnering With Chinese Pharma Companies, Advises India

Anoo Bhuyan 26/06/2018

A government report suggests ways for Indian companies to...

The CWMI pulls no punches because it does not contain the information needed to identify new opportunities for new investments and gaps in the existing infrastructure. The Srisailam Dam. Credit: syshook/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

NITI Aayog’s Water Management Index May Be an Experiment but It Is Lazy

K.A.S. Mani 26/06/2018

In its current form, the Composite Water Management Index...

Apart from uranium, the wells tested in Gujarat and Rajasthan also contained significant amounts of fluorides and nitrates. Representative image. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave

Groundwater in Northwest India Has a Uranium Contamination Problem

Lakshmi Supriya 25/06/2018

Unlike the limits for arsenic and other toxic metals...