Saturday, December 30, 2017

Quick notes: Fighter shortfall, Amazon subsidy...

  • Fighter shortfall to worsen during NDA's term: The IAF will have 2-3 fewer squadrons in 2020 than  in 2014,.  


  • Silence of the lambs: Why Trinamool MPs didn't speak on triple talaq bill in Lok Sabha. pSecular games: Trinamul rally of Hindu priests


  • Pro-booze govt: Uttarakhand amends excise rules to allow bars near highways 


  • Subsidized by taxpayer: For every Amazon package it delivers, the Postal Service loses $1.46


  • Micro-grids are the future: A network of about 20,000 homes with solar panels and energy-storage batteries lets its members buy and sell excess energy to each other.



  • No point taking calcium and vitamin D supplements: "Vitamin D is synthesized in the skin in response to ultraviolet-B radiation in sunlight, and dietary sources of vitamin D are limited". Exercising out in the sunshine should provide a person with all the vitamin D they need.


  • Battle against smog: Beijing’s improving air quality stands in stark contrast to India’s capital New Delhi, where pollution has steadily become worse over the past few years, and is now well above Beijing‘s.


  • How to Be a Better Person? Be Empty.



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