The occasional linklist – July 19, 2020
I have been pondering creating a column on my blog where I share links to articles I read and liked. I perform this function on Twitter at the moment, but the attention some links attract are rubbish,…
Nuclear power
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Roundup of missed stories – February 14, 2016
Developments I’d have liked to cover but haven’t been able to for lack of time.…
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 than 200 million live in and around these forests and depend on th…
Ambivalent promises for S&T in the BJP manifesto
There is very little, if any, concrete stuff about promoting science in the country, and a lot of it seems poised to supplant the goals of other ministries.…
For once, a case against the DAE.
I met with physicist M.V. Ramana on February 18, 2013, for an interview after his talk on nuclear energy in India at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. He is currently appointed jointly with…