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#Environment | Any Plans to Make #Lakshadweep a Tourist Hub That Rivals the #Maldives Could Prove Costly
There is an obligation to protect the Islands' fragile ecology and limited assets. It's no shame to say we have insufficient space.
Ranjan Solomon✍️
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#Environment | #Uttarkashi Tunnel Collapse Calls for an Immediate Scientific Review of the Char Dham Project
The fate of the men inside the tunnel is hanging by a thread, despite massive rescue efforts.
C.P. Rajendran✍️
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What seems to be missing in the statements of the former and present #ISRO leadership regarding the public displays of their temple visits is the fact that the “cosmic awe” of scientists like Einstein cannot be equated with a personal god.
@cprajendran✍️
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#TheSciences | #ISRO helmsman S. Somanath’s recent comments claiming Vedic roots to modern scientific discoveries and understanding have gained currency after Chandrayaan 3's successful landing on the south pole of the moon. | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
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Soon after his speech, Breakthrough Science Society, a collective of scientists, termed Somanath’s comments “an unrealistic claim” delivered in “an exaggerated and eulogised manner, creating confusion in the minds of people”. | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
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Somanath’s claims are not new – and neither is the debunking of such claims.
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya describes how scientists Meghnad Saha and J.V. Narlikar had rubbished such claims.
@TheWireScience
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Sex chromosomes dictate the gender of central bearded dragons. But when the incubation temperature goes over 32º C at a particular stage in development, heat overrides chromosomes, turning males into females. | @janakilenin
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#COP27 is indeed a historic win for developing countries. Our researchers @rad2306 and @7meerukat tracked the climate negotiations bringing us the perspectives that matter.
This is a short thread on our coverage of the crucial climate talks. 1/9
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In case you missed it, @Banjotkaur's searing piece on real life patient stories and research packed reporting on Giloy related hepatitis is all you need to know.
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I wrote an article on the recent developments in black hole information loss paradox.
Why write another article, when so many have been written on the same subject?
Because I felt that the coverage of this topic has not been sufficiently balanced.
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My take aways from this article - ‘Is climate crisis being used by some countries as a pretext to achieve other goals’? ‘Is Pvt sector not aware of the principles of the climate convention? Is it just a business for them?’. Is #COP27 getting Co-opted?
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In this spiritual follow-up to his (unlikely) blockbuster essay on the black hole information loss paradox, @Kaju_Nut describes two potential resolutions – and why one of them has received so little follow-up and coverage. A Sunday feature: science.thewire.in/the-scien…
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The fishers have a different way of reading storms. There's much to learn by listening to those who know the earth by feeling it. Palayam explains how this low pressure was a dud for Chennai from the get go. #ScienceOfTheSeas
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After failing on its #climatechange finance commitments, the US under Biden now tells poor countries their only hope is private sector investments. Trouble is, climate change is not a profit-making business. My colleagues @rad2306 & @7meerukat write science.thewire.in/environme…
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After lofty speeches, the UK defaults on $ 288 million commitment to Green Climate Fund. Embarrassing for rich countries as UK holds presidency of #climate talks till upcoming #COP27 at Egypt. @7meerukat writes in @TheWireScience Research @LandConflicts science.thewire.in/environme…
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Excellent essay by Dr Hariom Patel.
All societies suffer from a disconnect between doctors who are 'elites' and their patients. Language should not be a new barrier
MP’s MBBS in Hindi experiment science.thewire.in/health/mp… via @TheWireScience
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An excerpt from Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist: E. K. Janaki Ammal, A Life 1897-1984, an upcoming biography to be released the eve of Janaki Ammal's 125th birth anniversary on Nov 4. science.thewire.in/the-scien…
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We need to find more honest ways to be hopeful than to unthinkingly lap up cherrypicked data often cited by our authority figures.
Read this important piece on inclusion & diversity in Indian higher ed from @TheWireScience
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In 2021, 13 kids died due to poisoned cough syrup made by a drug maker in HP. The culprit was a licensed manufacturer older than 10 years. For the tragedy to happen, the maker would have had to ignore good manufacturing practices. But how was it able to?
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"Government drug labs in at least seven states and one Union territory have either not conducted impurity tests ever or haven’t performed them as a matter of routine." science.thewire.in/health/in…
In context of the latest news that DEG adulteration of cough syrup made by an Indian firm killed 66 children in Gambia, here's my story on the 2020 deaths of 13 children in J&K due to DEG-contaminated medicine. And how such crimes are eminently avoidable livemint.com/politics/policy…
