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Health

Knitting, baking and painting improve well-being and mental health, study finds

It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly it happened, but at some point over the past few years, wool got cool.

No longer the preserve of grannies, knitting is now ...

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Human Rights

India’s Dowry Culture

In virtually every corner of the globe women are denied basic human rights, beaten, raped, and killed by men. This happened yesterday, it is happening right now, and it wil...

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Thought Factory

Tired Hands, Weary Feet

‘Slavery is legally banned. But millions of India’s children live and work in slave labour conditions — bonded labour,...

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Sustainable Development

The Looming Disaster Of The Internet Of (Hackable) Things

The Looming Disaster of the Internet of (Hackable) Things Last January, walking through the seemingly endless showroom at the gadget bonanza known as the Consumer Elec...

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Human Rights

Rajasthan To Set Up First Authority To Guarantee Land Titles

Rajasthan is setting up an independent authority to verify and guarantee land titles in its cities, a move seen by experts as speeding up property transactions, freeing up ...

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These Ingenious IIT Students Are Using Scrap Tyres To Build A Library And Playground For Needy Kids

How an architecture company founded by IITians is using scrap tyres as construction material to build playgrounds and a library for underprivileged children in Bangalore. I...

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Alternative Entertainment

Shawn Coss Illustrates The Anguish Of Mental Illness Beautifully For #Inktober

Every October, the artists of the world come together to fill the internet with art and inspiration. This began in 2009 when one artist, Jake Parker decided to challenge hi...

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Environment

Ontario Seeks To Put A Cap On Water Bottle Industry With Two-Year Ban

The Ontario government has proposed a two-year moratorium on the creation or expansion of bottled water operations fed by groundwater in the Canadian province, in a bid to ...

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Gender

This Artist Is Inviting Strangers To Grope Her In Public: Here's Why?

For women around the world, sexual harassment is a daily part of life. Swiss performance artist Milo Moiré is challenging some of those misogonystic norms by showing...

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Can Tiny Homes Solve Homelessness?

At least, that's the opinion of Alan Graham. But Graham, the CEO of Austin-based Mobile Loaves & Fishes, thinks he knows what the solution is: a sense of community. MLF...

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