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Whirlpool of History

Gurinder Chaddha’s latest film Viceroy’s House was inspired by the charming memoir by Pamela Hicks, daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, covering her ...

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Gender

A Photoseries Calls Out Patriarchy, Likens Oppression To Ancient Witch Hunts.

Earlier this month, Saint Petersburg-born and India-based conceptual photographer Victoria Krundysheva uploaded a photo series depicting Indian women as powerful witches.Kr...

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Human Rights

The Feminist Side Of Sweatshops

Compared to the post-industrial prosperity Americans enjoy today, “sweatshops” seem inhuman. But there is another side to the story. Strange as it sounds, there...

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Sustainable Development

Tiny Silk Batteries Dissolve Within Weeks

A flexible battery made of gauzy silk films could power electronics and then melt away after a preset number of days (ACS Energy Lett. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00...

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Environment

Mammoths, Sabre Tooth Tigers And Other Megafauna Went Extinct

Mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers, giant sloths and other ‘megafauna’ died out across most of the world at the end of the last Ice Age because the changing climate b...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Train - First Class Delivery For Women's Rights At Belfast's MAC

The issue of women's reproductive rights in 1970s Ireland doesn't immediately suggest 'musical comedy' - yet this is the path taken in The Train with delightful ease. After...

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Health

Hospitalizations Drop Where Laws Restrict Trans Fats

People were less likely to go to the hospital with heart attacks or strokes after several counties in New York State restricted the use of trans fats, according to a new st...

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Environment

Get Ready For More Mosquitoes And Ants Thanks To Climate Change

Bugs are everywhere—you're surrounded by them right now, wherever you are, and as the news is always eager to remind us, they could team up to destroy us at any momen...

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Thought Factory

Story-Mining At Ambejogai - EkalMahilaSanghatan by CORO

Vinta Nanda of the Asian Center for Entertainment Education (ACEE) was invited by CORO to attend the Single Women’s Conference on Saturday and Sunday, March 25 and 26...

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TV

Repeats, Ad Nauseum

With the Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh doing the news rounds, there can be no better a time than this for Epic Channel to telecast the first two episodes of...

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