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‘Only Gandhi Wrote About Paupers’

Perhaps no other scholar in the social sciences has studied India’s poor and its informal economy as intensively as Jan Breman. The sheer temporal span of his researc...

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Sustainable Development

NASA Wants To Turn This Asteroid Into An Art Gallery

For emerging artists, finding gallery space to exhibit your art can be tough, especially if your art caters to niche interests (like, say, Sonic erotica). But luckily for a...

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Kaleidoscope - Music With Mitch

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is one of those all time bestsellers that never goes off the lists. Fans treat it as a guide book for better loving. For those who haven...

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Gender

Meet The Queer Woman Who Proved Einsteins Theory About Gravitational Waves

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—almost a century ago. But until recently there was no way to observe them. B...

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Sustainable Development

How We Entered A New Era Of Astronomy

Last week, a new era of astronomy began as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory executive director David Reitze stood before a packed room at the National Pr...

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Environment

The Train Derailment That Gushed Oil Into A Quebec River Has Spawned Freaky Fish

What is shocking, however, is the extent of the problem: the rate of the deformations in one sample was found to be ten times higher than normal.
The 2013 derailment o...

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Hollywood

Stars Help Deliver Gift Of Hearing During Super Bowl Weekend

Starkey Hearing Foundation delivered the gift of hearing to 134 San Francisco-area children and adults, ages four to 84, at the ninth annual Super Bowl Hearing Mission last...

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Human Rights

A Tamil Movie Based On True Events Has Sparked Off An Uneasy Debate On Police Brutality

In 1983, Coimbatore-based auto driver Chandran was working as a waiter at a hotel in a village near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. One day, he and a few other labourers from Tam...

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Environment

Engineers Devise A Way To Harvest Wind Energy From Trees

Harvesting electrical power from vibrations or other mechanical stress is pretty easy. Turns out all it really takes is a bit of crystal or ceramic material and a couple of...

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Bollywood

Emraan Hashmi To Launch A Cancer Awareness Mobile App

While he does not like to be in the media glare, Emraan Hashmi does not shy away from promoting a good cause. We all know how he was devastated when his son, Ayaan was diag...

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