Sunday, August 31, 2014

Fail-safe

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The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) – the original five campuses, often considered to be the top engineering institutions in India and...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Gut feel

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Recent research from UCSF argues that the bacteria in the human gut could be strategically altering our eating habits. The study published i...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Fooled by observations

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Two recent theories – one that hypothesizes that the universe is a floating 3D brane at the edge of the event horizon created by the collaps...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

The Carbon conundrum

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Global warming has been a hot topic – in science, popular press and politics. On this topic, it is difficult to separate the three cohorts, ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Inefficient accounting

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Recent research that shows conflicting and confusing but significant impact on stock prices during policy discussions around a suggested ch...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Autoimmune games

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Recent news from Johns Hopkins that game theory could have applications in cancer treatment is in a profitable direction. Windows of predict...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Data neutrality

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As the “net neutrality” debate kicks in – effectively forced by a handful of monopolistic companies who almost already control the internet ...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Don’t cry for me

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It was an enjoyable spectacle – something that lifted the spirit of at least half the world. Sport, perhaps the only human invention, that m...