September 2009 - Posts - Lab Rats

September 2009 - Posts

Lab Rats has moved

Posted by sadmin at 
Lab Rats, along with all of Livemint's blogs has moved to a new Wordpress platform. Visit http://blog.livemint.com/lab-rats for more posts on science simply click here . Also don't forget to update your RSS feed readers and tell all your friends! Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine!

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Was our response to swine flu alarmist?

Posted by Seema Singh at 
Now that the media have somewhat stopped counting the A/H1N1 deaths, and there seems to be a sense of relief in the society, it's time to see how the public health measures taken in response to the swine flu spread actually measure up. A research paper in the latest issue of British Medical Journal by Peter Doshi from the Massachusetts Institute...

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Why do journalists in India not write books?

Posted by Seema Singh at 
Well, I am not asking this (for, to some extent, I know why) but the versatile historian and sociologist Ramachandra Guha is. Last Friday, at the Bangalore launch of the book The Long Revolution-The birth and growth of India's IT Industry by Dinesh C Sharma, science editor at Mail Today , Guha spoke passionately (as he always does) about the conspicuous...

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