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India's devious reason to not spend more on culture
'Difficult to allocate public fund to art and culture: Centre', The Hindu, March 19, 2023: Given the high disparity it experiences in elementary rural infrastructure like health, education
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Some science prizes are only for men
Say Someone has won the Nobel Prize for physics, perhaps the most prestigious honour (as awards go) for a physicist. What would it mean for all the future awards given
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Keep working. Don't get up.
'Inside Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy Office', WSJ, February 16, 2023: Coming to the campuses of Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is a contraption that can
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The curious case of the blue coloured ice cream
From an unusual ice cream colour to quantum mechanics to ecology to semiconductors to gastroporn.
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A masculine build-up to the Ind-Pak cricket match
It's just good business.
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The Frida Kahlo NFT
Like a Phoenix rising from its ashes, Art is reborn into Eternity. fridanft.org In July this year, a Mexican businessman named Martin Mobarak allegedly destroyed a painting by Frida
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In search of sandastros
About a week ago, I wrote to ICANN asking for a list of all the .com domains that were still available. After I received the file a few days later,
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UAE: Straws in the wind
At the Ajman Museum (in the UAE), there is on display a traditional architectural design called barjeel, to cool homes and other small places of human occupation. It is essentially
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On referring to female officers as 'madam sir'
ET Lifestyle published a Twitter thread this morning about police officers referring to female superior officers as “sir” or as “madam sir”. I do find the practice offensive, because it
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Unless the West copies us, we're irrelevant
We have become quite good at dismissing the more asinine utterances of our ministers and other learned people in terms of either a susceptibility to pseudoscience or, less commonly, a
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Review: 'Love, Death & Robots' 3 (2022)
"Embrace the suck."
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Hail the Royal Society
The Royal Society's appointment of its first Brazilian member since 1871 brings an underappreciated form of our colonial hangover to the fore.
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Why there's no guarantee that Musk's Twitter will resemble Dorsey's
Many folks are saying they're not going to leave Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk's acquisition because Musk and Jack Dorsey aren't different.
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TV ads are becoming creepy
Have you watched the new ads of Magicpin, Instamart, Rapido and PharmEasy?
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Lord of the Rings Day
War is on our minds, and in Tolkien's Middle-Earth saga, there were many of them.