Science & Technology
It takes around 1,800 gallons of water to grow enough cotton to produce just one pair of regular blue jeans. To grow the cotton required for an ordinary cotton shirt is not as bad as for jeans, but it still takes a whopping 400 gallons of water.
Yes, this information does make us raise our eyebrows that cloth has traveled a long way from…
There has been something unconvincing about orderly shapes like triangles and squares: we find them in textbooks, in the way children in schools are made by teachers to assemble and disperse, but never in life itself. Life is actually wild, messy and labyrinthine, no matter what sort of lens we view it through. The branches of a tree are bit like its roots – and…
The Internet’s profound influence on our cognitive abilities is turning us into adept multitaskers, but at the cost of imagination, creativity and in-depth thinking
Although the world wide web has been around for just 20 years, it is hard to imagine life without it. It has given us instant access to vast amounts of information, and we’re able to stay in touch with friends and…
There is a saying that if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem you come across will look like a nail.Scientific solutions seem to concentrate on redesigning the problem perspective. The nature of solutions at our disposal is changing the definition and the scope of problems. Ready as the scientists are with technological solutions, problems are found for which they can be applied.…
Our architecture takes immense inspiration from nature. The tallest trees help us vision the world’s tallest buildings and the flying pattern of a dragonfly gives us the wisdom to build helicopters. Most of our achievements have been from nature and yet, we barely understand it.Janine Benyus, an activist, thinker and creator has made it her mission to acknowledge what we take from nature. She and…