(Image Credit: http://www.penguin.co.uk) Any debate involving the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in contemporaneous times, more likely than not leads to an intensely splintered outcome. On one side of the debate, stand avowed optimists going to great lengths to extoll the Panglossian prospects of AI. Noted proponents of this notion, such as American computer scientist … Continue reading The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI – Michael Wooldridge

(Image Credit: http://www.penguin.co.uk) Inflammation as we all know it, in its most rudimentary and reductionist parlance, represents a visual phenomenon that is putting it mildly, discomforting. Redness accompanied by swelling and carrying a common label that invariably has “itis” at its end – tonsilitis, appendicitis etc. However, as transplant gastroenterologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine … Continue reading A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet And Disease – Shilpa Ravella

(Image Credit: Viking) A novel decreed to be ‘unpublishable’ by its own author and remorselessly delegated to the confines of obscurity. “This book doesn’t work. It must be destroyed,” opined Gabriel Garcia Marquez on his last and almost abandoned novel. A decade following the demise of the Nobel Laureate, Until August has been resurrected by … Continue reading Until August – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the world’s most dangerous sporting expeditions involves maneuvering an approximately 798-kilogram car primarily manufactured using carbon fibre and similar ultra-lightweight materials, hurtling it at mad speeds of 200 mph down long straight lines, while at the same time avoiding perilous and possibly fatal contacts with the barricades and walls fencing the automobile circuit, … Continue reading The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport – Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) What’s with these Scandinavian authors and a preternatural ability to craft a story? Popular thriller writer Hildur Knútsdóttir produces an astonishingly gripping plot in her latest offering The Night Guest. Conjuring up the most horrid of stories, and yet treading the path of alluring sophistication and simplicity, Knútsdóttir comes up triumphant in … Continue reading The Night Guest – Hildur Knútsdóttir

(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) Frank C. Carlucci III was a storied diplomat who plied his wares under seven presidents across party affiliations. He discharged his responsibilities in the military and foreign service in addition to serving as national security advisor and secretary of defense. Get Me Carlucci is a compilation of reminisces about her father by … Continue reading Get Me Carlucci – Kristin Carlucci Weed & Frank C. Carlucci III

(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) In the year 1919, Sweden and Norway agreed on a reindeer grazing convention that proposed to limit the number of reindeer allowed to cross the border. This convention also insidiously determined the number of people to be displaced from their homes on the Atlantic seaboard. The Sámi people represented an Indigenous group … Continue reading The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of The Northern Sami– Elin Anna Labba