The Dilemma of Digital Sleep Solutions
admin Digital aids are sweeping through a sleepless world. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A wooden bowl, filled with water and bobbing wooden orbs, is sloshed around with a spatula. A…
Fitness
Study: Delhi Street Vendors Suffer Health Issues, Financial Losses Due to Heatwaves
Dehydration, heat exhaustion, fatal heat strokes. A recent study by Greenpeace India and the National Hawkers Federation, which surveyed 721 street vendors between April and May 2024, has shed light…
Kallakurichi Methanol Hooch Tragedy: Exposing the Deadly Nexus of Bootleggers and Lax Enforcement
In one of the worst hooch tragedies in recent times, at least 58 people, including a few women, have died, and more than 50 others are battling for their lives…
Review of The Moral Contagion by Anil Menon: Julia Hauser’s plague chronicle fascinates but falls short on promised insights into pandemics’ societal toll
A coloured wood engraving showing a street during the Great Plague in London, 1665, with a death cart and mourners. It is captioned, “Bring Out Your Dead”. | Photo Credit:…
India’s Deadly Snakebite Crisis: Karnataka Leads Charge to Tackle Hidden Epidemic
Kumar Gowda, a 60-year-old small farmer from Sannegowdara Colony in Hunsur taluk, Mysuru district, vividly remembers August 26, 2022—the day he lost his wife. After lunch, Gowda and his wife…
Blastocystis Gut Parasite: Healthy or Harmful?
Your gut is teeming with tiny single-celled parasites called Blastocystis. Gross, right? But a new study shows these gut parasites can be linked to a healthy diet. A study in…
COVID-19 Vaccine Safety: Balancing Rare Side Effects with Public Health Benefits
In the US, more than 13,000 recipients of COVID-19 vaccines have filed injury claims with the federal government. In India, Venugopalan Govindan’s daughter Karunya died in July 2021 after taking…
Venki Ramakrishnan’s “Why We Die” Offers a Clear-eyed Look at Ageing, and the Limits of Longevity
“…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” —Benjamin Franklin, among others The dread of death (and ageing with all its debilities) is a…