Quick notes: AMCA, Fuel cookie...

• From Tejas to AMCA: While the IAF will be praised if the AMCA (Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft, an indigenous Gen-5 fighter) meets its objectives, credit should really go to the unfairly vilified DRDO-HAL-ADA combine for leapfrogging three generations of technology in developing the fourth-generation Tejas fighter.
  
  In this process, the LCA project has catalysed an aerospace eco-structure, and a design experience, that will be the essential springboard to the AMCA. With much of these Gen-4 technologies currently being refined for the Tejas Mark II, the AMCA team can focus on the Gen-5 challenges.



• Fuel Cookie from waste wood: 84% less wood and 98% less emissions than traditional open fires.




• Air pollution makes your brain age faster, destroying white matter like a neurotoxin.



• The Myth of Big, Bad Gluten: Maybe shifts in our intestinal microbial communities, driven by antibiotics and hygiene, have contributed.



• Kalyug:

Hema Malini got star treatment, we were in pain: Car crash family http://t.co/F1jez0aZsZ via @htTweets - Kalyug is harsh on poor and needy.

— Shivakumar Gurumurth (@GSK197715) July 3, 2015




• Chainless e-bike: