Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future By Beth Gardiner Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and in poorer ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, premature birth and dementia, among other ailments. In […]
How Doctors Think: Jerome Groopman, M.D. About The Author: Jerome Groopman, M.D., holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he is the author of The Anatomy of Hope, […]
Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy In A Carbon Constrained World By Sumant Sinha Reimagining A Cleaner, Greener, Carbon-Free World The current global energy use, with its overwhelming dependence on fossil fuels, has taken global warming to dangerous levels. Climate change is already hitting us hard, through adverse effects on global food availability, biodiversity, rising […]
Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman Book Review: New York Times, Nov 25th 2011 Two Brains Running By Jim Holt In 2002, Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel in economic science. What made this unusual is that Kahneman is a psychologist. Specifically, he is one-half of a pair of psychologists who, […]
Poor Economics: Rethinking Poverty & The Ways To End It By Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo About The Authors Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Harvard University. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee is […]
The Importance Of A Sustainable And Healthy Diet Times Evoke A New Leaf Food is among humanities greatest joys. From savouring special delights to sharing food, how we eat symbolizes our deepest bonds. However, worryingly, the way we now consume food could soon consume us – the world’s food, once richly biodiverse, […]
Design Thinking By Nigel Cross How Designers Think Design Strategies Three key strategic aspects of design thinking appear to be common across all these studies: (1) taking a broad ‘systems approach’ to the problem, rather than accepting narrow problem criteria; (2) ‘framing’ the problem in a distinctive and sometimes rather personal way; and (3) designing […]
Conflicts of Interest: My Journey Through India’s Green Movement By Sunita Narain About The Author: Sunita Narain is an environmentalist and political activist who uses knowledge to push for changes in policy and practice. She has been with the Centre for Science and Environment since 1982 and is currently it’s Director General. […]
Cannabis: A Myth-Buster Cannabis is no more dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. The derivatives of the cannabis plant are known by many names – marijuana, weed, pot, ganja, charas, hashish and more. They have a socio-religious association in India dating back hundreds of years. Is it fair to club it with hard drugs like heroin […]
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– By Muhammad Yunus WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING “BANKER TO THE POOR” A Note on the Author: —————————————– Muhammad Yunus, born in Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and […]
