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Environment

A Total Of $2.6 Trillion Is Now Being Divested From Fossil Fuels

The commitments come from 436 institutions and 2,040 individuals across 43 nations, which reflects the truly global nature of the divestment movement. Norway?s Sovereign Fu...

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Hollywood

Stars Take Part In Be Good To Each Other Anti-Bullying Campaign.

CustomInk, the leading provider of custom apparel and accessories for groups and occasions, has launched its 5th annual Be Good to Each Other campaign in support of Nationa...

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Trending

Netflix Data Reveals Exactly When TV Shows Hook Viewers — And It’s Not The Pilot.

Netflix crunched cold, hard viewing data for more than two dozen TV shows and says it has determined which specific episode grabbed most subscribers to the point where they...

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Top 5

A Natural Balance

We aspire for a better world but are often absorbed with our own lives to take decisive measures. That is, until a film galvanises us into taking action. Our top five secti...

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Thought Factory

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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Thought Factory

The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Environment

It Turns Out Earth Has Seven Times as Many Trees as Previously Thought

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers describe using a combination of satellite imaging, boots on the ground trees-counting, and forest inventor...

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Health

Vaccination Is Not Just For Children

Immunisation is always associated with children, but doctors warn that protection from some childhood vaccines can wear off over time.
Adults can also be at risk for v...

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Health

Scientists Get One Step Closer To A Universal Flu Vaccine

LAST YEAR’S SEASONAL flu vaccine was a bit of a dud: It reduced a person’s risk of needing to see a doctor for the flu by only 23 percent. That wasn’t any...

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