Tag Archives: Joe Biden
India’s next man in space
NASA/SpaceX/Axiom will make their next attempt to launch the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station on June 11. Axiom Space’s tagline for the mission is “Realizing the Return”, alluding to three of the mission’s four crew members, including India’s … Continue reading
US fusion bhashan
Nuclear fusion? Yay! Climate finance? Shh! Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds
Tagged climate finance, Jennifer Granholm, Joe Biden, National Ignition Facility, nuclear fusion, US government
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On the NASEM report on solar geoengineering
A top scientific body in the US has asked the government to fund solar geoengineering research in a bid to help researchers and policymakers know the fullest extent of their options to help the US deal with climate change. Solar … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged cirrus cloud thinning, climate change, climate geoengineering, Joe Biden, marine cloud brightening, Mount Pinatubo, NASEM, Rob Bellamy, solar geoengineering, stratospheric aerosol injection
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Trump, science denial and violence
For a few days last week, before the mail-in votes had been counted in the US, the contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump seemed set for a nail-biting finish. In this time a lot of people expressed disappointment on … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged anti-masker, anti-vaxxer, Ashis Nandy, Challakere, COVID-19, disease modelling, Donald Trump, history of science, India-based Neutrino Observatory, Joe Biden, Kudankulam nuclear power plant, medical care, medical ethics, political mathematics, public hospitals, reason of state, Science City, science denialism, scientism, social epidemiology, Sterlite, Thoothukudi, US presidential election
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Vaccines for votes
A week or so ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar released its poll manifesto, the first point on which was that should the party win, it would make a COVID-19 vaccine cleared by the ICMR available for free to … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds
Tagged Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar polls, COVID-19 vaccine, Election Commission, ethics, Joe Biden, Nitish Kumar, NYAY scheme, polio vaccine
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