Cross Connections

I don't like this tree, a hybrid tree that bears forty different kinds of fruit and flowers in varied colours. This "sculptur...

India loves cows, the temple variety not the ones left with festering wounds to forage in garbage dumps. The new government is serious abou...

What made Pakistan react so vociferously to a water car? I find it interesting that despite it there was almost no talk of how they had been...

As though the brain is not complex enough, it rattles us with its ability to turn the tables on us. We have heard of cases of leading sci...

I have nothing against dolphins. In fact, I find them delightful. However, the scientific understanding of them as individuals, raises a fe...

If you don’t wear stilettos and still get orgasms, then pat your back. You are the last hope of science. It’s funny that ‘science-ologists...

Stephen Hawking says something quite ordinary and there is a reaction. The battle between science and religion is old and makes little sense...

I am tired of kissing. First it was kissing as an art, now it is a science. Can people not just be left alone to do with their mouths what t...

Stephen Hawking is baulking at the wrong evolutionary tree. He may choose gravity over God to rationalise the creation of the universe, but ...

Everyone is going on about who this Faisal Shahzad is. As though they are supposed to know. His neighbor has given some information: "H...

Would you like your doctor to be a machine? I am wary about the first ever heart rhythm operation performed by a remote-controlled robot. Dr...

Be prepared! Sounds like a dire warning, especially if what is to be unveiled is a 3-D image of Jesus Christ according to digital technology...

I remember best when I am in a state of turmoil. Then why are scientists saying that stronger and more lasting memories are likely to be for...

Making Haiti Survival, Sacrament and the Marketplace by Farzana Versey Countercurrents, January 25, 2010 “I survived by drinking Coca-Cola. ...

A doomsday quick-fix prophet on TV last night was holding forth on how the solar eclipse would muck up our lives based on our zodiac signs. ...

Maverick : Leave Lakshmi Alone by Farzana Versey The Asian Age, Op-ed, Nov. 13, 2007 Who is Lakshmi? No. The right question would be: What ...