Tinplate vs. plastic containers: which is more environmentally friendly? - Part 1
By Aniket Gupta | 14 Aug 2023
As people become increasingly conscious of the environmental impact of our consumption habits, we are pushed to make choices between what we are habituated to doing and what we should be doing.
Bengaluru suffers staggering Rs.20,000 crore annual loss due to traffic congestion
By Aniket Gupta | 08 Aug 2023
Traffic congestion in Bengaluru has resulted in an enormous economic loss of nearly Rs 20,000 crore for the city.
$40-50 billion target for Indian technical textiles
By Cygnus | 28 Jul 2023
The technical textile segment in India has experienced robust growth, in domestic sales and in exports, and the government is predicting a doubling of the market in the next five years.
You don’t have to be James Bond to travel on a flying boat!
By A Correspondent | 19 Jul 2023
Flying boats are a reality. And they’ve been so for decades. Hovercraft, which are flying boats that literally float in the air have been in use since the late 1950s.
Amar Bose
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Jul 2023
Had it not been for a strange twist of fate more than a century ago, the Bose speakers, considered the best in their class of products, might never have been created, or even been imagined!
Potato shaving cream
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Mar 2023
One day I was sitting with some friends, when one of them, who was working with a marketing agency, asked the rest of us
The light bulb scam
23 Jan 2023
A conspiracy was hatched in Geneva in Switzerland on 23 December 1924. The conspirators were top executives of the biggest light bulb manufacturing companies in the world.
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Ralph Nader – activist
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Jan 2023
If you’ve ever been involved with a people’s movement, or a consumer movement, it’s likely that you have heard the name of Ralph Nader. More so if you were growing up in the 1960s
How did watches evolve?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Nov 2022
I was reading an article on how humans and other animals evolved from their primeval ancestors. As you probably know, unless you think some god or gods just decided one fine day to create humans for some strange reason, it was by a process of natural selection!
The proof in the sand
31 Oct 2022
You may squirm, or you may throw a brickbat at me when you read this mixed metaphor. But here it is: the proof of the pudding is written in the sand.
George Westinghouse – prolific inventor
25 Oct 2022
If you ever wish to know more about the history of electrical appliances, and do a search, there is little possibility of your missing the name of George Westinghouse. His achievements included several mechanical as well as electrical devices.
The plural of moose
23 Oct 2022
Do you know what the plural of ‘moose’ is? You know what a moose is, right? You can see what it looks like below
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