Most of us know that desalination is expensive but the major chunk of it also is to manage and dispose (especially inland) the salty concentrate that is a byproduct of the process! Along with the […]
Conventional wisdom, from the great success-after-failure stories, that we hear from the silicon valley, tells us that the success will follow you after the initial failure at your start-up. A study, by Professor Paul A. Gompers […]
Have you heard people say things like, that is R&D’s job; boss will never go for it; Innovation is not our business; I am getting too old for this, etc etc. These are some of […]
For the uninitiated the global problems are huge in scope and there are no technologies or solutions exist to solve them. There are two pieces of the puzzle. One is you need to break it […]
We all know what a great fundamental scientific research is funded by NSF but for NSF and all the other funding organizations it has been a real challenge to get the discoveries out of the […]
Average homicide rate per 100,000 in US is 4.9 which is lower than the global average of 6.2. This is great but way worse if you compare US to other developed nations, whose average is […]
Lives of both the mother and baby are at risk for a variety of underlying reasons in poor and developing countries. Saving Lives at Birth #SLAB, a grand challenge for development has been launched to […]
E-Commerce is exploding in India, with sales doubling every few months and are expected to hit $100B by 2020. This is great….but because of the weak transportation infrastructure delivery men using bikes bear the brunt […]
You may have not heard of Digital Dark Age, but am sure have faced if you experienced any of the following: – A word document that you wrote, a while ago, say in Word 3.1 […]
In developing countries, where water isn’t supplied by municipalities often, especially India, you will find millions of bore-wells people use for water supply. Water is pumped and stored in tanks, which are generally on the […]
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