Einstein vs Quantum Mechanics … and Why He’d be a Convert Today
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Einstein vs Quantum Mechanics … and Why He’d be a Convert Today

Albert Einstein’s analysis of the “spookiness” of quantum mechanics opened up a whole range of applications including quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography, but he wasn’t completely convinced by the theory of quantum mechanics – and that story is as fascinating as the theory he attempted to nail down.

When the Himalayas Lose: Assessing Char Dham Pariyojana Judgment
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When the Himalayas Lose: Assessing Char Dham Pariyojana Judgment

The judgment rewards violations instead of establishing accountability. The monumental crisis of climate change has not been factored in. These blessed peaks are pivotal to our nation’s security, its climate, its water, its beauty, its wealth, its food, its air. When the Himalayas lose, India loses it all.

Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles
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Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles

2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.

Cuba’s Homegrown Covid-19 Vaccines Poised to Protect Millions in Poor Nations
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Cuba’s Homegrown Covid-19 Vaccines Poised to Protect Millions in Poor Nations

As rich countries hoard doses and Big Pharma refuses to share the knowledge required to ramp up manufacturing, Cuba’s public biotech sector could play a key role in defeating vaccine apartheid.

The Planetary Rift
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The Planetary Rift

The widespread view on the left that Marx had adopted an extreme productivist view of the human domination of nature—and hence had failed to perceive the natural limits to production and ecological contradictions in general, was contradicted by his theory of the metabolic rift.

Cuba Accelerates Vaccine Drive
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Cuba Accelerates Vaccine Drive

Cuba has now become the first country in the world to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for children as young as two, and is among the few countries worldwide to be vaccinating under 12-year-olds. By the end of the year the island will be among the first countries in the world to fully vaccinate its population.