Vijee Venkatraman

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Glasses-free 3D screen lets you see the wider picture

Future displays may soon go even further. Researchers from the Institute of Informatics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and MIT have designed a screen that can compensate for bad eyesight, too. "It...

Sweet Mundappa!

Recently, Tulika Publishers of Chennai held a I*Heart*Mangoes contest to coincide with the launch of its latest picture book The Sweetest Mango. I won a copy of the new book. My Review of The Sweetest Mango You can’t be a non-resident Indian and expect to...

Just Herself

“One of my formative experiences in Karachi happened when, as a 10-year-old, I would take my bicycle to the bike repair shop right outside our apartment compound,” the scientist recalls. “Rather than just repairing my bike for me, the man at the shop taught me...

Tarzan Girl

Margaret Lowman is a pioneer in canopy science, a subset of field biology, and the author of the best-selling Life in the Treetops. She also co-authored It is a Jungle Up There with her two sons. A professor at North Carolina State University and Director...

Churchill’s Secret War

Most readers with an interest in world history are familiar with Ireland’s seven-year Potato Famine, which lasted from 1845 until 1852. Fewer know of the catastrophic 1943 famine that claimed up to three million lives in Bengal, an eastern Indian state and then British colony....

Antidote to a Neglected Disease

Snakebite, a recent inclusion to the list of neglected tropical diseases drawn up by the World Health Organization, could be the most neglected of all neglected tropical diseases in the 21st century, says David Warrell, Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of...