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Sustainable Development

Engineers Combine Biological Energy-Harvesting With Electronic Circuits

Previous experiments have accomplished similar-sounding schemes—energy harvested within an inner-ear, tree-powered nanoelectronics—but with the critical limitat...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - The Healing Touch

The following is no filmy story. But it has the possibility of inspiring a Raju Hirani or a Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a central character who is as delightful as Munnabhai an...

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Kaleidoscope

Crime And Punishment

The film Drishyam (in its many versions), raised curiosity about the Japanese book that inspired it. The bestselling Japanese novel is also reportedly being made into anoth...

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Festivals

Dharmshala Film Festival: Beyond The Glitter Of Rs 100-Crore Club

Mcleodganj or ‘Little Lhasa’ hosted the Dharamshala International Film Festival this year. And a fine host it turned out to be. Special mention must be made of ...

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Sustainable Development

Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel

Now in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space jun...

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TV

True Review – Television This Week- Yamraj’s Climate Change Mission

The makers of Yam Hai Hum couldn?t have timed their current series of episodes better. The Paris Summit on Global Warming and climate change taking the front seat on the ne...

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Sustainable Development

Google Just Turned Android Smartphones Into Amateur VR Cameras

Google today released a new Android app called Cardboard Camera that lets users take VR photos with their smartphone, which are then viewable in the company&rsquo...

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Kaleidoscope

7/7/07: Heart Of Darkness

Reyhaneh Jabbari was just nineteen when she was arrested for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. After six years of torture and torment she was hanged in October 201...

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Gender

Why We All Need Planned Parenthood.

I’ve turned to Planned Parenthood twice during my reproductive years. Once was for an annual exam that had been much delayed. As I approached the clinic, a protester ...

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Kaleidoscope

Bond Forever

As the latest James Bond film, Spectre become a global hit, and rakes 31.9 crores on opening weekend in India, despite the ‘kiss’ controversy, the one criticism...

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