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A lot has been written about how India eliminated Polio. A related situation we are facing today is with the COVID-19 vaccine. The BIG difference: lack of time to conceive and launch a concerted campaign. Ideally, the conception should have started mid-late…
Porter Novelli is one of the world’s largest PR firms and belongs to the Omnicom Group. In November 2020, they announced, in response to a query from The New Yorker that, “Porter Novelli is committed to regularly assessing evolving issues, the science…
If you were to meet your future self (say, from 2034) what would you tell her/him? Yes, I’m aware that almost every single movie on time travel tells you to stay away from your future or past self to avoid a ‘paradox’….
A recent research paper concluded that American Twitter users are adding political words to their bios at a higher rate than any other social identity and that they are now more likely to describe themselves by their political affiliation than their religious…
In September 2020, the Swedish magazine focused on the healthcare industry, Dagens Medicin (Today’s Medicine), reported about Skåne County (Skåne province in Sweden) was being sued by the Swedish healthcare company Vårdinnovation for breach of contract. The news report said that Skåne…
BookMyShow, the ticketing platform, launched its own streaming video service in February this year. It’s called BookMyShow Stream, and you have the choice of either renting or buying titles through the platform. The combined package now being offered by BookMyShow reminded me…
PLANK is an Italian designer furniture manufacturer. I have not heard about the brand at all and the minimal, eye-catchy designs reminded me of IKEA. But when I read up about the brand, I figured that they have been in business since…