Online activism: internet games

Video games on the Internet no longer spell just mindless escapism for misguided kids. Many of the most popular games today also involve role-…

Anytime is ad time

Companies rely on advertising to convince people to buy things they don't need. They also use advertising to salve their easily hurt egos. Four …

Save the Nu/Salween river

China's plan to build a series of dams over southeast Asia's second largest river has evoked a strong response from environmental, human rights …

Al-Jazeera launches English channel

Field work stalled after Australia stopped funding for Wollemi National Park

Kenya to publish in Sheng

Brazilian Orkut users information given to government

100 biggest questions on UK's environment drawn

Cut off

Australian documentary depicts role reversal in a satire on colonisation

Uruguay's school children gearing up to get their history in place

Panel urges teachers, parents to get their facts straight on evolution

China wary of Internet-led wars

The fracas over Apple logo

Arunachals first HDR report

Deschooling environment

The enemy within

>> All About Bacteria, by Ravi Mantha, Harper Collins, Rs 299

Website review: One-stop source

www.indusscitech.net

Snippets

Book review: Deep and detailed

Indian Estuaries S Z Qasim Allied Publishers Pvt Limited, Delhi p420

I drink cola, therefore I am?

Film review: Massacre of the innocents

The Killing Fields: Orissa's Appalling Turtle Crisis, produced by Shekar Dattatri

Water, water everywhere

Play bandit

Not banal