The True Toll of the Chernobyl Disaster
Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear.
Scientists Have Political Role Outside Their Labs to Safeguard Humanity
Celebration of scientific discoveries confined only inside the laboratory would be insufficient to achieve social goals, for which the scientific community has to step out beyond the laboratory with social sensitivity and political responsibility.
Around 50 Million Years Ago, Africa was an Island. So How Did Primates Get There?
Humans evolved in Africa. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely in Asia – before colonising Africa. At the time, around 50 million years ago, Africa was an island isolated from the rest of the world by the ocean – so how did primates get there?
When Human Life Begins Is a Question of Politics – Not Biology
Science can observe various phases of fetal development but cannot determine when human life begins.
Designed to Kill? Why Go-Ahead for 7 Hydel Projects in Uttarakhand Is Malafide
Will the three ministries – environment, power, jal shakti – who approved these contentious projects, be held accountable for any future ecological disaster?
A Plea for Liberal Education
I see liberating education as the cultivation of awakened intelligence—not instrumental reasoning. This means the possibility of inner flowering—the integral development of reason and intuition, brain and heart, science and aesthetics, body and soul, and thinking and feeling.
Lesley Blume’s ‘Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World’
Lesley Blume, a journalist and biographer, tells the fascinating story of the background to John Hersey’s pathbreaking article “Hiroshima,” and of its extraordinary impact upon the world.
Einstein and Landau: Scientific Geniuses as well as Anti-Capitalists and Anti-Stalinists!
A discussion about Einstein and Landau, not in their capacity of exceptional scientists who marked the modern era, but in their capacity – mostly unknown as it was thoroughly buried—of anti-bureaucrat socialists and anti-Stalinist communists!
Richard Lewontin: Race Science for the People
We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.
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Fukushima: The Tragedy Is Going to Continue for Decades, if Not Centuries – Two Articles
Unclear if Fukushima Cleanup Can Finish by 2051: IAEA; Fukushima’s Lasting Tragedy.