S.Muthiah (1930-2019)
(Courtesy: Mylapore Times. Photograph by Ganesh Natarajan.) Sitting at my desk in Boston, in MIT where I edited strands of DNA for the Human Genome Project, I’d read S. Muthiah’s Madras Miscellany during breaks. I…
The Spice Scout
Claire Cheney has traveled to close to a dozen countries to bring quality spices and herbs back to Curio Spice Co. A former barista, she saw that people believed in fair trade and were willing…
AI and Breast Cancer Detection
AI and Breast Cancer
Machine intelligence takes a big step into the clinic, with a technology that helps identify patients with an elevated risk of breast cancer.
The Best Little Bird Sanctuary in India
If you went to school in Chennai, chances are you have visited the Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary, some fifty miles south of the city. As an eighth grader, I went there on a school excursion. Oblivious…
Stirring up Debates
Sometimes, an article I write stirs up intense debates. Like so. The title of the post relates to a debate going on over at the Science Careers Blog. The editor there was responding to an…
Dr. Satchin Panda
Eat, Sleep, and Move Right
Our obsession with digital screens is depriving us of sleep and hurting our health. Study after study shows that we are staying up till late, glued to our gadgets, which in turn leads to another…