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This Scientist Wants To Sequence The Genomes of 8,000 Endangered Animals Before They’re Gone

Erich Jarvis has a selfish reason for wanting to sequence the genomes of thousands of endangered animals. He needs a bunch of these species to survive long enough for him to s...

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Canada Is Investing $2 Billion In A Climate Disaster Mitigation Fund

In its new federal budget, Canada invests in machine learning and teaching kids to code, but offers no real plan for how to address workplace automation.The wildfires that tor...

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Film Festival Highlights Work Of Deaf Community

Jules Dameron, an award-winning deaf filmmaker from Los Angeles, is thrilled to be in Rochester this week to headline the community's Deaf Rochester Film Festival, and to be i...

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Experimenting With Seven Styles Of Odissi

“Dance is the essence of my soul,” said Odissi exponent and Sangeet Natak awardee Aruna Mohanty, who is the recipient of this year’s prestigious Padma Shri a...

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It's Very Sad Thing That Women's Needs To Learn Self Defence Nowadays, Feels Akshay Kumar

Bollywood's Khiladi Akshay Kumar, who will next be seen in the upcoming film 'Naam Shabana' wants women to roam freely rather than to learn self defence these days. Actor Anup...

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Lily Tomlin To Headline Comedy Event To Benefit Voice For The Animals Foundation

Emmy and Tony-winning, Academy Award-nominated actress and animal advocate Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie) joins actress June Diane Raphael (Grace and Frankie) and other comed...

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'Billions' Star Tells Ellen What It Means To Identify As Gender Non-Binary

Asia Kate Dillon is making history as the first gender non-binary character on a mainstream television show, Showtime’s “Billions.” The star, who also identi...

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Dirty Air And Water Increase Cradle Deaths In India

If this does not wake us up what will? The World Health Organization (WHO) has pressed the alarm exposing that children below five years are at the highest risk from filthy ai...

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Plagued By Decades Of Child Trafficking, India Activists Call For Crackdown

MUMBAI // Activists are clamouring for the rapid introduction of a new law to crack down on child trafficking in India, a problem that has plagued the country for decades. Chi...

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This Scientist Is Using Subway DNA to Prepare For Life Beyond Earth

Dr. Chris Mason is studying human and bacterial DNA to understand how humans might prepare for life in space, as well as how to defend our bodies from the radiation of long jo...

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FESTIVALS: IT’S WORLD HERB DAY ON 6TH MAY

The Prophet remarked that eating lentils fills the heart with sympathy, brings tears to ...

May 4 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: DEPICTION OF CHILD ABUSE IN CINEMA

Courageous storytellers daringly illuminate the darkness of child abuse, igniting conver...

May 3 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: 50 YEARS OF GARM HAWA

On Balraj Sahni’s birth anniversary, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at the lasting l...

May 1 2024