Alan Varghese

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Alan Varghese |Rebecca Jones |Maria Gomez-Jenkins |Eileen White |Rui Wang |Drew Jones | +3 more

AbstractAround 40% of the US population and 1 in 6 individuals worldwide have obesity, with the incidence surging globally1,2. Various dietary interventions, including carbohydrate, fat and, more recently, amino acid restriction, have been explored to combat this epidemic3,4,5,6. Here we investigated the impact of removing individual amino acids on the weight profiles of mice.

Jan 19, 2025 | blog.alanvarghese.me | Alan Varghese

Imagine one day, you’re scrolling through your Jira tickets, and the latest ones are marked as resolved — by AI. Why wouldn’t it be? If it had access to the code, understands the requirements, and has been trained on previous human input, it’s perfectly capable of completing the task. You however, are left wondering: What’s the point of me doing this anymore? This isn’t a hypothetical scenario anymore.

Jul 30, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Feroze Mithiborwala |M K Bhadrakumar |Countercurrents Collective |Alan Varghese

We are clearly witnessing history in the making, as the Western Zionist dominated post-WWII order is in a state of inexorable decline, with new nations and powers fast emerging. Thus let’s consider the following chain of events. 1. Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro wins the elections, whilst defeating Edmundo Gonzales, the US-CIA backed candidate. Major victory for the Bolivarian Socialist legacy of Hugo Chavez and the People’s Revolution.

Jul 1, 2024 | countercurrents.org | M K Bhadrakumar |Countercurrents Collective |Alan Varghese |S G Vombatkere

TEHRAN — There is enormous appreciation among Iranian intellectuals, diplomats and politicians regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stellar support for their country’s membership of the BRICS grouping. Modi played a key role to navigate Iran’s membership purposively at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg last August. The Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t be present at Johannesburg.

Jun 14, 2024 | countercurrents.org | M K Bhadrakumar |Countercurrents Collective |Alan Varghese |Richard D. Wolff

One hidden transformation of the international system in the most recent years has been the hijacking of the G7 by Washington as its ‘kitchen cabinet’ in the transatlantic system. The G8’s ‘shrinkage’ to G7 in March 2014 following the coup in Ukraine was a defining moment that signalled that there wasn’t going to be any post-cold war peace dividend.