Medicine?? Search For Meaning

Every day, we are reminded that the health care system is in crisis. We are going bankrupt. There are too many lawsuits. We practice defensive medicine. We restrict access....

Paging Dr. Watson: IBM Supercomputer Gains Access To 30 Billion Medical Images

IBM’s Watson supercomputer (and “Jeopardy!” winner) will be processing a lot of broken limbs and tumors in its ultimate quest for sentience. The company a...

Multisensory Cinema Adds Smell And Touch To VR Worlds.

Virtual reality is all about immersive experiences. From VR therapies that treat PTSD to news reports that transport us directly into war zones, VR disrupts the way we expe...

Akshay Training Women In Martial Arts’

Bollywood actor Siddharth Malhotra says Akshay Kumar, his co-star in Bollywood movie “Brothers”, is doing a commendable job by training women in self defence. A...

Drones Are Grounding Wildfire Fighting Aircraft In California.

Mid to late July in southern California is the very heart of wildfire season. And with many years of drought ensuring the state’s forests are parched and as ready to ...

Can Gender Equality Reduce Suicides In India?

Psychiatrists warn that type of masculinity sustaining structure of patriarchy literally kills New Delhi: Offering more reasons for men to share power with women, psychiatr...

These Scientists Think Genetically Modified Rice Can Help Solve The Climate Crisis

A new kind of genetically modified rice with a higher starch content could produce more food while at the same time reducing the methane, a greenhouse gas, that's emitted w...

#Digitaldiary: Q2 Report Card For Social Media

More than half the year is gone. As July came to an end, the social media platforms came out with their Q2 results. How did Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn do this quarter?<...

How Vice’s Feminist Channel ‘Broadly’ Plans To Get Women Right

“TO BE HONEST,” Tracie Egan Morrissey tells me. “I actually don’t really care what men think or how they feel.”

It’s about ten m...