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Surviving and thriving under climate change in the world’s deltas

By Guest PostApril 12, 2014EnvironmentBangladesh, climate change, egypt, halil rud fluss, India, ipcc, jiroft kultur, kerman gebirge, mesopotamien, neil adger, nile delta, peter pfaelzner, provinz kerman, quantum licht, robert nicholls, university of exeter

Researchers from the University of Exeter are investigating the effect of climate change on deltas in South Asia and Africa to understand how people will respond and adapt.

Deltas are economic and environmental hotspots, with many large deltas in South, South-East and East Asia and Africa. The new $13 million project examines four deltas that are home to almost 200 million people, many of whom are farmers who provide food for a large proportion of the population.

The project will work with scientists, demographers and social scientists in the Nile delta in Egypt, the Ganges-Brahmaputra in Bangladesh and India, the Mahanadi in India and the Volta in Ghana. (more…)

Writers from seven countries awarded $150,000 Yale prize

By Guest PostMarch 10, 2014Culture, Mediaaminatta forna, australia, beinecke rare book, canada, drama, India, jim crace, john vaillant, kia corthron, literature prizes, manuscript library, nadeem aslam, noelle janaczewska, non fiction, Pakistan, pankaj mishra, sam holcroft, sierra leone, united kingdom, united states, windham campbell, yale, yale university

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale has announced the winners of the Windham Campbell Literature Prizes. This year’s recipients illustrate the global scale of the prizes, with the eight winning writers hailing from seven countries. The winners in the three categories — fiction, non-fiction, and drama — will receive $150,000 each in recognition of their achievements and to support their ongoing work. (more…)

Miss America speaks about cultural competency

By Guest PostFebruary 9, 2014Cultureaacc, american enough, battell chapel, beauty in america, bharatnatyam style dance, brown town, circles of unity, combating ignorance, cultural competency, India, indian, miss america, miss america 2014, miss america pageant, miss new york, nina davaluri, sas, traditional, university of michigan

Before an audience of roughly 100 Yale students, faculty, and staff on Feb. 4 in Battell Chapel, Nina Davaluri — Miss America 2014 — shared her goal of spreading cross-cultural understanding and combating ignorance.

Last September, 24-year old Nina Davaluri became the first woman of South Asian decent to win the Miss America pageant. Following the crowning, some critics called Davaluri a “terrorist” while others stated that she was not “American enough” to represent the United States. Students from the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) and the South Asian Society (SAS) responded to the racist commentary by organizing a dialogue to promote cross-cultural understanding. (more…)

What’s your story? Six strategies for entrepreneurs

By Guest PostDecember 26, 2013Economy, Small Businessapple computers, failure, good storyteller, India, investors, jamsetji tata, jobs, lianne lefsrud, limited financial resources, p devereaux jennings, seed oil mill, small businesses, startups, strategies for entrepreneurs, success, tata group, two steves, university of Alberta, university of michigan, wozniak

ANN ARBOR — An entrepreneur’s backstory plays a critical role in the success or failure of a fledgling venture, says Lianne Lefsrud, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Ross School’s Erb Institute.

“Especially for entrepreneurs with limited financial resources, stories are a way to create resources if you can make sense of the world with your stories,” Lefsrud said. (more…)

Indien steckt tief in der Zwiebelkrise

By Guest PostDecember 14, 2013Economyadam smith, benzin, China, gemuesemarkt, handelsminister anand sharma, hindustan times, India, indien, indira gandhi, janata partei, kolkata, mckay savage, millionen tonnen zwiebeln, mumbai, neu delhi, peter g achten, politiker, premierminister manmohan singh, reserve bank, sharad pawar, sonja gandhi, uno massstab, zwiebelkrise

Zum Heulen: In Indien sind die Zwiebelpreise explodiert. Die Volksseele kocht. Politiker bangen um ihre Wiederwahl.

Die Preise für Zwiebeln haben sich in Indien fast vervierfacht. Das Alltagsgemüse ist zu einem Luxusgut geworden. «Über die letzten Jahre», kommentiert ironisch die in Neu Delhi erscheinende Wirtschaftszeitung «Economic Times» das ernste Thema, «wurden wiederholt Tränen wegen Zwiebeln, beziehungsweise wegen zu wenig Zwiebeln vergossen.»

Der Anstieg der Zwiebelpreise gefährdet die politische Stabilität im Land. Für Politiker, die demnächst wiedergewählt werden möchten, ist die Lage bedrohlich, denn die meisten Wähler sind arm und leiden am meisten unter den teuren Lebensmitteln. Sowohl regierende wie oppositionelle Politiker sind nervös, stehen doch im Dezember in fünf indischen Bundesstaaten Wahlen an. Noch gravierender: Anfang 2014 finden landesweite Wahlen statt. (more…)

Ancient crater may be clue to Moon’s mantle

By Guest PostDecember 12, 2013Scienceaitken basin, ancient crater, brown university, carle pieters, chandrayaan, dan moriarty, giant spa impact, India, laser program, lower crust, lunar orbiter, lunar science institute, mantle, mantle materials, mapper data, mineralogical surprises, mineralogy, moon, moon mineralogy, NASA, nlsi, peter isaacson, solar system, south pole, spa basin, spa subsurface, subsurface, university of hawaii, upper

A massive impact on the Moon about 4 billion years ago left a 2,500-mile crater, among the largest known craters in the solar system. Smaller subsequent impacts left craters within that crater. Comparing the spectra of light reflected from the peaks of those craters may yield clues to the composition of the Moon’s lower crust and mantle — and would have implications for models of how the Moon formed.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Researchers from Brown University and the University of Hawaii have found some mineralogical surprises in the Moon’s largest impact crater. (more…)

India’s Daily Readership of Online News and Information Jumps 34 Percent in the Past Year

By Guest PostOctober 1, 2013Technologycomscore mmx service, daily readership, India, india today group, indian express group, information, jagran sites, navbharat times, ndtv, news publishers, oneindia, online news, punjabkesari

Times of India Leads Online News Ranking, While Also Generating Significant Traffic from Abroad

New Delhi, 1 October 2013 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report highlighting online news readership in India based on data from its comScore MMX service. The report showed that there has been significant growth in daily readership of news and information content in the past year, with an increase of 34 percent to 9.4 million average daily visitors to the category. (more…)

Nice genes! What makes you genetically compatible with your partner?

By Guest PostSeptember 8, 2013Scienceankylosing spondylitis, anthony nolan trust, australia, auto immune disease, bbc breakfast, compatibility gene, DNA, eastern europe, Europe, genetic make up, hiv, human genes, India, penguin, problems in pregnancy, professor daniel davis, second world war, swiss zoologist, uk charity, wife katie

Professor Daniel Davis and his wife Katie’s experience is documented in The Compatibility Gene, published by Penguin, which discusses how our crucial compatibility genes may influence finding a life partner as well as our health and individuality.

Professor Davis said: “We each possess a similar set of around 25,000 human genes. Some of our genes vary from person to person, like those that give us a particular eye or hair colour. But my book is about the few genes – our compatibility genes – that vary the most between each of us. First and foremost these are immune system genes; they control how we combat disease. But recent research shows that they may be even more important than we once thought – there is evidence that they can influence how our brains are wired, how attractive we are, even how likely we are to reproduce.’’ (more…)

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