“We are living the period of the objects (products): that is, we live by their rhythm, according to their incessant cycles. Today, it is we who are observing their birth, fulfillment, and death; whereas in previous civilizations, it was the object, instrument, and perennial monument that survived the generations of men. …Today, we are everywhere […]
Bhalotra, S., and Cochrane, T. (2011). ‘Where have all the Young Girls Gone? Identifying Sex Selection in India’, CMPO Working Paper No. 10/254. [online]. Accessed from: http://www.bris.ac.uk/cmpo/publications/papers/2010/wp254.pdf Accessed on October 15 2015. Chaudhury, S. (2013). Indian family planning posters from the 1950s. Accessed from:http://www.cuttingthechai.com/2013/03/6167/indian-family-planning-posters-from-the-1950s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CuttingTheChai+%28Cutting+the+Chai%29# Center for Industrial & Economic Research (CIER) and Industrial Techno-Economic Services P. […]
Halloween, on October 31, is now a Hallmark celebration. A global event celebrated by people around the world as a fun-day with candy and costume. Hallowed Evening, or the evening before All Saints Day – All Souls day, a celebration of the dead and departed, has now become a global party, a globalized commodity with […]
Nearly 1.4 million girls were missing at birth in 2008. In India, half a million girls go missing at birth each year – more than the number of girls born annually in the UK . Missing girls at birth is a result of sex-selective abortions (SSA), which is the voluntary termination of pregnancy based on […]
Nearly 1.4 million girls were missing at birth in 2008. In India, half a million girls go missing at birth each year – more than the number of girls born annually in the UK . Missing girls at birth is a result of sex-selective abortions (SSA), which is the voluntary termination of pregnancy based on […]
Released in theaters two weeks apart in the summer of 2015, one movie, Tomorrowland, about positive attempts to make the planet’s real future better failed to attract audiences; while a second movie, Jurassic World, about dinosaurs trampling each other in an unrealistic future made the fastest billion dollars at the global box office in the […]
“If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.” ― Jonas Salk (1914 – 1995) Developed the inactivated polio vaccine in 1955 “Mercy, Mercy Me (The […]
Near-death, but happy A near-death experience (NDE) is a personal or subjective experience associated with what are called near-death episodes. In a near-death episode, a person has been declared clinically dead, is very near death, or is in a situation where death is impending, likely or expected. The situations where people have reported near […]
Looking back at 2014, four events told the story of our world’s public health: 1) scientists blacklisted the phrase “Nature versus Nurture;” 2) release of the English version of Capital in the 21st century; 3) booming business of cord blood banks; and 4) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. I wondered what the […]
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share And no one dared disturb… “The Sound of Silence” – a song by Simon & Garfunkel from the debut studio album: Wednesday Morning, 3 AM (1964). This […]