With an endowment of $39.6 billion, and an annual grant support of about $4 billion, US-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is one of the leading private found...

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From Vir Sanghvi to Aveek Sarkar, everyone is a fan of Tarun Kumar Shaw’s unique personal book home delivery service. If a book has been printed, and is in circulatio...

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Recently I was at a dinner party of my peers, which is to say: Not Young People. (Thus far, most Generation Xers refuse to refer to themselves as middle-aged, though we sur...

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Over the past 30 years there has been an increasing recognition of, and interest in, a concept often called "sustainability." Sustainability is a complex and sometimes chal...

Here Comes The Science Bit: Why Music Festivals Are Going Geek

Festivals have long been cosmic experiences – havens of music and hedonism designed to whisk you away from reality for 72 hours. Of course, those mind-melting moments...

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Ahead of the release of her sweeping new drama, we spoke to Katell Quillévéré about being moved by ‘E.T’, dealing with A-list actors, and t...

Netflix Will Have To Suck It Up: Why The Cannes Film Festival Is Not Chill

The streaming giant has had a spoke in its wheel after protests over two of its Cannes films not being released in cinemas. But if it wants the kudos, Netflix will have to ...

Yigal Ozeri Paints Hyper-realistic Women Living In Nature Without Malice

The reaction to Yigal Ozeri's astonishing paintings, composed of thousands of tiny brushstrokes, has two elements to it. There's an immediate hit of 'holy shit, that's not ...

Swizz Beatz Supports National Foster Care Awareness Month

May is a month marked by students celebrating academic feats and achievements. However, May is also National Foster Care Awareness Month, and for the more than 670,000 who ...