Sometime in April 2009, Google brought in a herd of goats to mow the grass instead of using lawnmowers at its Mountain View headquarters in California. The company said that it wanted to take a more ‘low carbon’ approach with the goats reducing the company's...

A Swiss cheese slice has holes because of carbon dioxide bubbles that form in the cheese during its making. The Swiss cheese model is an excellent way to explain about protection that one can get from the coronavirus reaching you. Each Swiss cheese slice as...

Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, is known to always understand the pains of people, including the workers. This got reiterated in a book ‘# TATA STORIES 40 timeless tales to inspire you’ in which the author Harish Bhat writes that Ratan Tata used...

We all travel, but we all do not fall sick. Sickness during or soon after returning from a travel should be avoided by taking appropriate precautions, preferably by seeking professional advice as some illnesses that are life-threatening can be prevented. The article briefly discusses the...

An audio call does not cause as much fatigue as does a video call. Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft says, "Thirty minutes into your first video meeting in the morning, because of the concentration one needs to have on video, you're fatigued." Fatigue is extreme tiredness...

According to WHO (World Health Organization), the air we breathe is growing dangerously polluted and 9 out of 10 people now breathe polluted air killing about 7 million people every year. The simplest one-line advice when air quality deteriorates is to stay indoors and close...

Jasprit Bumrah’s statement after the Dubai debacle in a cricket match recently against New Zealand seems to have unintentionally introduced OH (Occupational Health) in Indian sports. OH is a medical specialty that deals with preventing illness (especially work-related) and improving performance, in addition to many...