Arvind ji and yours truly attended the first VD Vartak Memorial lecture organised by the Botany department of Pune University on 25 Nov 2024. The speaker was Dr Madhav Gadgil. I have been a big fan of Gadgil ji – and the opportunity to hear him live was too good to pass. Madhav ji started … Read more
Ramesh Raskar was born in Nashik, India and he finished his engineering education in Electronics and Telecommunication from College of Engineering, Pune in 1991. He was an avid photographer in his college days and this interest led him to do a PhD in projector based 3d graphics from UNC, Chapel Hill. Raskar then joined Mitsubishi … Read more
We cycled to Talegaon to visit https://www.theajitfoundation.in – Through Abhay P, CEEPL has been supporting them for the last two years. Met with Vinaya Nimbalkar, who looks after the Pune center. She and Mahesh, her better half, started this foundation about 20 years ago. They have had more than 4,000 students who have benefitted from … Read more
658 words Thanks to the internet, teens don’t have to drive to a mall to buy sneakers, let alone anachronisms like CDs or video-game cartridges. In many places, it’s also more difficult and takes longer to get a license than it used to. But research clearly shows that the rise of alternative means of transport … Read more
364 words When it first hit the streets in the 1880s, the modern bicycle was a revolutionary innovation, the iPhone of its time. In those days, before the automobile was invented, when horses, trains, and feet were the main ways to get around, people were amazed and thrilled by these marvels of science and engineering, … Read more
253 words Then there are the colossal tracts of sheer space, the oceans of real estate —a precious commodity in cities especially—that cars have taken from us. Most automobiles are parked 95 percent of the time, just sitting, immobile and unused, doing nothing except hogging up space. From an economic perspective, this is absurd. The … Read more
591 words Humanity’s insatiable appetite for energy created the climate-change crisis. The same appetite is now impelling us into an energy transition which carries its own tremendous costs. Switching from fossil fuels to renewables is an improvement, but it’s not nearly enough. It’s necessary, but not sufficient as a solution. To create a truly sustainable … Read more
426 words One morning in October of 1971, a six-year-old girl named Simone Langenhoff was riding her bike down a road in the southern Netherlands. Suddenly, a careless driver whipped around a blind corner and crashed into her. In an instant, Simone became one of some 450 children killed by automobiles in the Netherlands that … Read more
676 words Manufacturers argued that their restrictions were necessary to safeguard trade secrets and to protect people from hurting themselves by messing with their machines. “Apple told Nebraska lawmakers that the bill would turn the state into a ‘Mecca for bad actors,’ predicting that hackers and other nefarious figures would flock to the state to … Read more
497 words What’s good for consumers and the planet is not always good for corporations, of course. Apple makes money if you buy a new iPhone; it makes nothing if you get your old iPhone fixed at an independent repair shop. That’s why companies of all sorts have, for decades, discouraged repair and encouraged customers … Read more
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