Money matters. But is that all?

Recently, Bayer, a pharmaceuticals and chemicals behemoth, agreed to pay $10 billion to settle with thousands of claimants who had filed in court against the role of Roundup (a weedkiller product of the company) in inducing cancer. One would believe that if a company is shelling out such a huge sum, it reflects an obvious admission of the claims. But the company has maintained that the product is safe and better than alternatives.

The only reasons behind the settlement seem to be that the company wishes to do away with the negative publicity and the battering the stock price has taken. Purely transactional, one might say.

The Big Bang comes to an End

The Big Bang theory is a theory (no need to sigh now) in Physics that seeks to explain the origins of the universe. How the universe, as we know it today (maybe without the hole in the Ozone), came to exist. And that pretty much concludes everything I know about the cosmological theory.

A search on - of course Google, what else – presents us with fifteen or so results that come up, out of which just one talks of the theory (dear Wikipedia). All other links and media point to The Big Bang Theory- the sitcom.