Noble Peace/Economics Nobels or Not?

Noble Nobels, or not , that is the question?
It sounds a little wonky, but I think this is really the question that a lot of people around the world have raised after the Nobel Prizes for this year were announced a few days back.
The Peace Prize has gone to US President Barack [...]

Why Fix The Climate? Change The World Environment Day Slogan Instead!

I waited till this morning’s newspapers before writing this post. I was looking for a media story on how and why the Indian government has forced a change in the slogan for this year’s World Environment Day.
The actual slogan worked out by the United Nations Environment Programme for the World Environment Day 2008 is CO2: [...]

Are We Humans Really As Smart As We Think We Are?

As a reaction to my long harangue about the scientific basis of socialism and communism my good friend Shubhash has again raised some pertinent questions. Here is his mail verbatim together with my reply:
Arjun

I think my attention span is getting shorter by day (am I getting younger or older?) and therefore cannot digest or [...]