Naga chilli

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A lotus for Modi, with love from Manipur

This bit of news is so chock full of metaphors that I'm almost laughing out loud. Annotated excerpts from 'CSIR’s new lotus variety ‘Namoh 108’ a ‘grand gift’ to PM Modi: Science Minister', The Hindu, August 19, 2023: It's a triviality today that

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India and the 2021 medicine Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for 2021 has been awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering the receptors in the human body responsible for our ability to feel heat and cold. Science Central to the discovery of how we sense temperature is a chemical compound called