Saturday, October 15, 2022

Quick notes: Toxic remedies | Quantum entanglement...

  • Poisonous prescriptions: The dark side of Indian pharma comes out with Africa's cough syrup deaths.. . . . India's lax drug regulatory mechanism under spotlight after 69 killed in Gambia.
    Drug regulation: Missing files and no accountability


  • The Chips Act Shows How to Invest in Education: The Chips Act makes large-scale federal investment in innovative research and manufacturing of microchips. It has already stimulated private-sector investment designed to revive American microchip industry. Micron and IBM have announced investments of roughly $120 billion while Intel alone will invest $100 billion.

    But what many don’t know about the Chips Act is that its significant federal spending goes beyond manufacturing, innovation, and incentives for research and development. The act provides $13.2 billion focused on R&D and workforce development with a specific investment in education and in science, technology, engineering, and math skills. It will offer a real pipeline from schools, to college, to career for many students.


  • The Universe Is Not Locally Real: And the Physics Nobel Prize winners proved it. One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half century is that the universe is not locally real. “Real,” meaning that objects have definite properties independent of observation—an apple can be red even when no one is looking; “local” means objects can only be influenced by their surroundings.



  • Daily Digital Detox: Village in Maharashtra declares "independence" from two modern-day addictions - television and mobile internet. At least, for a couple of hours every day.


  • With 5G here, data is the new alcohol: The heady alcohol of the superspeed connectivity that the future generation of consumers will live in and take for granted in the future.


  • What about other Indian languages? Amit Shah-headed panel wants Hindi replace English in IITs, courts in north India


  • Stop poking at us with Hindi rod: All four southern states carry the same message: Leave us alone, we are happy with our own culture and language. Imposing a new language and a new culture would be a farce.


  • Told you so: Rishi Sunak has earned some vindication, having made it clear he was ardently against fairytale economics of cutting taxes

    UK PM Truss U-turn on mini budget, raises corporate tax.

    62% of Conservatives feel they made the wrong choice between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, compared with 15% who said they had got it right.


  • Indians trying to enter the US via Mexico: More than 16,290 Indians were taken into custody by the CBP between October 2021 and August 2022.


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