Why India’s Garment Factories Are Unreliable for New Workers
In recent years, India has sewn its way toward a more reliable income for nearly 35 million garment industry workers. Agricultural laborers left the fields to work in factories that sprouted up as the economy gained steam. But as demand for exports has dropped amid the global financial crisis, hundreds of thousands of Indian garment workers have found their new line of work is on shaky ground. Sudden job losses highlight an industry where workers have few rights and where the support systems that help laborers in developed markets are lacking, according to experts interviewed by India Knowledge@Wharton.
Read MoreEvolution: A One-Way Street
Since Darwin, evolution has been in vogue. Most scientists take it on principle that accumulation of mutations in DNA over million of years leads to new life forms.
But a question that has intrigued researchers for some time is whether organisms can go back to their ancestral forms. Is evolution is reversible? Conventional wisdom—known in the sphere of evolutionary biology as “Dollo’s law” after pre-eminent dinosaur researcher Louis Dollo—says no. A recent study published in the journal Nature has elegantly confirmed that evolution is a one-way street by studying the process at the molecular level.
Read MoreBritain To Face Energy Shortages
Britain faces serious power shortages in the next four years because of an aging energy infrastructure, warned the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), the United Kingdom’s chief energy regulator.
Read MoreElixer Of Old Age
The indigenous people of the Ryukyu Islands have, it seems, the elixir of old age. They live on average for 110 years. They longevity has been tied to their eating habits, and termed the Okinawa diet by commercial interests. The islanders consume only 1 calorie per gram of food, primarily through green and yellow vegetables, [...]
Read MoreCleantech Hubs Emerge Worldwide
Will Silicon Valley be left in the dust of other nations in the clean energy race?
Washington, of course, says no, promising $2.5 billion for renewable-energy research and another $37 million for small businesses to develop cleantech.
Silicon Valley says that’s not enough.
