India, Oct. 9 -- In his book The Mystery of Capital, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto explored why capitalism had flourished in the West but stalled elsewhere. His answer was that it was not a matt... Read More
India, Oct. 2 -- When we guess at how well-off someone is, we typically have no idea what they earn. What we do observe is the neighbourhood they live in, the size of their home, or the model of car t... Read More
India, Oct. 2 -- Every living thing, from the simplest cell to the human brain, exists only by virtue of its ability to register and respond to the world beyond its boundaries. Life began, quite liter... Read More
India, Sept. 25 -- When I was an engineering undergraduate at BITS Pilani, nearly 40 years ago, we lost three students in my cohort to suicide during college, and two more not too long after. Nearly 1... Read More
India, Sept. 11 -- Seventy-four thousand years ago, the sky went dark. On the island of Sumatra, the supervolcano Toba erupted with a force that was beyond anything humans had previously known. The Ea... Read More
India, Sept. 4 -- In his landmark book, Peacemaking Among Primates (1989), primatologist Frans de Waal describes a behaviour he first documented among the chimpanzees of Arnhem Zoo in the Netherlands ... Read More
India, Aug. 28 -- Have you noticed how a motorcyclist who always wears a helmet on the main road may sometimes ride without one on a quiet road inside your colony? He has not necessarily decided that ... Read More
India, Aug. 21 -- The race to leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) is usually discussed as a contest of algorithms, but that misses two other components - data, which trains the models; and comp... Read More
India, Aug. 14 -- The current debate over whether eggs should be included in school mid-day meals has obscured a larger question: Should Indians eat more animal protein? The most recent National Fami... Read More
India, Aug. 7 -- In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan makes the case that while we think of agriculture as the process by which humans domesticated plants, in some sense, it is crops like maize t... Read More