May 9, 2020Instead of diluting labor laws, India should do the following to improve manufacturing in IndiaMajor states of India have relaxed labor laws. Three states ease labour laws to boost investment, jobs | India News - Times of India Migrants who arrived by a special train walk to board buses (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The relaxation of rigid and archaic…timesofindia.indiatimes.com I am not writing from labor perspective much. I am writing from perspective of good steady manufacturing of why this is a bad move.Manufacturing2 min readManufacturing2 min read
May 9, 2020Too much of we and too less of I in India.India’s problem is not BJP or naxalites or congressis. It is Indianness. It permeates all groups in form of dishonesty,inability to think for oneself, emotion based response instead of fact or truth based response, terrorism especially in large masses, hierarchy and salve mentality. Only when people break out of this…India3 min readIndia3 min read
May 4, 2020One more reason to replace Facebook, this time, once again personalFacebook algorithms are really screwed up or they are suddenly doing a social experiment on me. The video suggestions are Bollywood songs and Hindu Bhajans — not my cup of tea. Religion first — My father is atheist, mom used to be agnostic but spiritual, who occasionally, once a year…Facebook4 min readFacebook4 min read
May 2, 2020Uncle Sam and Ironman walk into a pub and discuss data privacy in a post-Covid19 world.I has a weird morning dream. By the way, the premise of this article and attempted humor during half asleep dream is that two men walk in a bar. In this case, Uncle Sam and uncle Joe Stalin. Uncle Joe, with twisted arm and twisted brain, asks Uncle Sam, does…USA5 min readUSA5 min read
May 1, 2020Social media for everything, including tricky carbon footprintI have been thinking of a social media, which works on various formats, taking the best of all out there and discarding what is not desirable. I have been thinking of it for women and children’s safety but today when it hit me that we can do something about environment…Social Media3 min readSocial Media3 min read
Apr 22, 2020Contradicting idea and not fighting the person is spirit of science. Luc Montagnier and SARS-CoV2 story.The small HIV insertion of others, do not point to lab design. A study in Nature Medicine assures of that and is sound but is also no proof of lack of design. It seems logical that it is a zoonotic infection but also belittling Luc Montagnier is silly. Luc’s claim…Science3 min readScience3 min read
Apr 13, 2020On everything that risesWittily names Turing Church, after Church-Turing hypothesis, puts forward an interesting vision. That vision is set in civilization temporally far-far away. It talks of spooky stuff of quantum entanglement and time travel, nothing impossible but currently far from possible. Copying individuals from past sounds like a great fantasy. Most amazing science also starts with good fantasy. It will need several things, including intelligence beyond human. Who knows where we will go with AI but for sure can make the immediate crises of COVID19 shorter.Transhumanism1 min readTranshumanism1 min read
Mar 9, 2020Commonly used pre-print servers for researchersby Ronit bhattacharjee and Sukant Khurana Preprint servers are changing research and peer review. Here is a brief list of 7 of the common servers, which are currently relevant to what we do, and hence we are sharing with anyone, as educational resource. If you have not used a pre-print…Preprint Server2 min readPreprint Server2 min read
Jan 27, 2020India should study and ban dangerous pesticides, such as chlorpyrifos and impose similar standards…India should study and ban dangerous pesticides, such as chlorpyrifos and impose similar standards, as Western countries. Kanchana Ganga and Sukant Khurana Insecticides are a necessity of current modern agriculture. We think, insecticide demands can be drastically reduced with use of drones but until there is a new revolution in…Pesticides9 min readPesticides9 min read
Jan 1, 2020Role of Mitochondria in diseases, a glimpse of what goes when power-house goes rogue.by Sigma Jena and Sukant Khurana Mitochondria is called as the power houses of the cell. Mitochondria is absent in prokaryotes and anaerobic eukaryotes. The term mitochondria was coined by Benda in 1898. Mitochondria, were first discovered in 1857 by physiologist Albert von Kolliker, and later coined “bioblasts” (life germs) by Richard Altman in 1886. The organelles were then renamed “mitochondria” by Carl Benda twelve years later.Science4 min readScience4 min read