An Opportunity Lost?
The plastic ban is a lost opportunity to simultaneously impact the environment, while strengthening local innovation networks and mitigating the disruption to industry.
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Reverse flow: What science can learn from common people
When investible amount is limiting and not the investment opportunities, a ratio model is appropriate whereas when the investment opportunities are limiting and not investible amount, a difference model is appropriate.
Nurturing science through communication: journalists and scientists
The thrill of writing the story and the pride of having carried out the research still belong to the individual journalist and scientist respectively, but the activity, as a whole is more important than that.
Technology from the grassroots: What formal engineering can take away
Our broader work examines whether a good model for sustainability engineering could be developed by studying the practice of grassroots technology design, by both untrained as well as trained designers.
Need for teacher education in professional colleges
In these days of specialization in every field, it has come as a bane of the teaching profession that those, who are otherwise erudite, do not have the flair to impart knowledge to others, thereby defeating the very purpose of education.
Let’s Empower People with The Method of Science and Not Merely Its Conclusions
If we wish to make people rational and scientific, we must teach them the scientific method and let them work out the results for themselves.
Academies need to act to stop legitimization of ‘predatory’ journals
If the country’s ambition of making use of the great potential of its youth to develop India into a formidable knowledge power is to be achieved, the decline in quality of faculty and infrastructure needs to be checked effectively and urgently.
Who May Swim in the Ocean of Knowledge?
Students should be able to access materials they need to educate themselves with, with the full support of their institutions, instead of being forced to fend for themselves in the wilds of the Internet.
Scientists and Journalists Square Off Over Covering Science and ‘Getting it Right’
Some scientists say they should have the right to review stories in which their work or words are covered prior to publication. Journalists disagree.
Science and Technology in Economic Survey 2018
This is a well-intentioned document that tries to balance many disparate factors that shape the budget allocation process in India.