Monthly Archives: August 2015
The chemistry of the Tianjin warehouse blasts
The Tianjin warehouse blasts on August 12 caused a weak surface quake in the Chinese port city, made houses uninhabitable in a 2-km radius, absolutely decimated a parking lot of 8,000 cars in its vicinity, blew a crater below the warehouse, released a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 Tianjin warehouse explosions, ammonium nitrate, calcium carbide, potassium nitrate, Rayleigh jets, sodium cyanide
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DNA Bill uploaded for feedback
The Department of Biotechnology, under the Ministry of Science & Technology, is soliciting feedback on the Human DNA Profiling Bill, a scanned copy of which has been uploaded to the DBT website – accessible here. It is dated June 9, 2015, and … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymisation, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Department of Biotechnology, Human DNA Profiling Bill, jurisprudence, privacy safeguards
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AT&T, the weakest link
In the throng of American companies and their confused compliance with the National Security Agency’s controversial decade-long snooping on internal and international communications, The New York Times and ProPublica have unravelled one that actually bent over backwards to please the NSA: … Continue reading
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Tagged AT&T, Edward Snowden, National Security Agency, SIGINT, snooping, telecommunications, Verizon
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Climatic fates in the ooze
While governments scramble to provide the laziest climate-change commitments ahead of the UN conference in Paris later this year, the world is being honed to confront how life about land will change as the atmosphere and surface and heat up. … Continue reading
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Tagged diatom ooze, Global warming, marine science, ocean acidification, pelagic zones
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The devil in Obama’s new emissions target for the US lies in base year details
President Barack Obama announced a new climate change target for the United States’ electricity generation sector on August 3. Hailed by many as ambitious, the plan dictates that power plants in the world’s largest economy and second largest polluter reduce their emissions below 32% of their 2005 … Continue reading
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Tagged base year, carbon dioxide, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Kyoto Protocol
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