Search Result

Search Result
Environment

Plants Can See, Hear And Smell - & Respond

Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, "are just very slow animals". This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences...

Read More
Hollywood

TJ Martell Foundation Announces 5th Annual Women Of Influence Awards

The TJ Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS research has announced its 2017 Women of Influence Awards which will be held Friday, May 12, 2017 at The Plaza Hotel...

Read More
Trending

FICCI Frames 2017: Indian M&E Industry Could Collaborate With Canadian Producers Via Co-Production, Co-Ventures And Service Providers

MUMBAI, 22 March 2017: Co-production, co-ventures and production service providers’ arrangement are the three ways for India to collaborate with Canada in the enterta...

Read More
Human Rights

Why A 106-Year-Old Event Is Still Relevant In 2017

Women won't be coming to work. That's what Americans may think that International Women's Day means this year. The event, which has been celebrated for 106 years, has no si...

Read More
Sustainable Development

This Augmented Reality App Tells Indigenous Stories In Canadian Cities

Wikiupedia aims to be a digital network of Indigenous knowledge. Adrian Duke showed me his phone while we stood outside Vancouver's Skwachàys Lodge. An animated rave...

Read More
Gender

After Kalpana Chawla & Sunita Williams, Here’s The 3rd Indian-Origin Woman Go To Space

In November 1997, Kalpana Chawla became the first woman of Indian origin to travel in space as the mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator aboard the US space s...

Read More
Trending

A Conversation About Friendship Failure And The Future with Bill Gates

Last week, I was in New York for a conversation with Warren Buffett at Columbia University. The event, moderated by Charlie Rose, combined two of my favorite things: meetin...

Read More
Sustainable Development

200,000 Years Of Staggering Human Population Shown On Animated Map

Last night, during a talk on his new book Raising the Floor, longtime labor leader and current senior fellow at Columbia University Andy Stern told the story of a king and ...

Read More
Environment

Prehistoric Trees Could ‘Future-Proof’ Forests Against Climate Change

As you walk through the landscape, you pass through a patchwork of forests that were logged at different times. You may go from bushwhacking through a dense thicket of youn...

Read More
Sustainable Development

23 Million Year Old Leaves Helped Solve An Antarctic Climate Mystery

As Antarctica melts, it’s releasing centuries’ worth of locked-away ice into the ocean and pushing sea levels higher. It’s scary stuff. But it also isn&rs...

Read More