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The History Of All Girls Band & The Rock World Which Rejected Them

It was 1964 and singer Genyusha “Goldie” Zelkowitz had a problem. The all-girl band she formed in 1962 with drummer Ginger Bianco, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, ...

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Sustainable Development

Why Scientists Are Listening To Insects

Researchers are reviving a field of study grounded in both music and biology: wingbeat frequency. This peculiar line of study could help us fight malaria It's a warm summer...

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Hollywood

Berklee College Of Music To Present Female Student With Beyonce's Formation Scholars Award

Berklee College of Music is one of four colleges participating in Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s annual Formation Scholars awards, beginning this fall. Berklee will ...

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Gender

Woman Who Debated With Buddha

Neelakesi proved that anybody can be a rishi, irrespective of birth A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a fascinating character, who serves as the focal point for a now lo...

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Human Rights

Caught In The Crossfire

The wanton killings never seem to stop. A bomb attack recently on refugees inside their own homeland in Syria led to the ghastly deaths of 68 children in Aleppo. There were...

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Environment

Real Unicorn Puts Starbucks Frappucchino To Shame

Amid the highly Instagrammable sludge of a million Starbucks Unicorn Frappucinos, one true champion has emerged: a one-horned creature that was recently found in Iceland. F...

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Alternative Entertainment

How One Creature Haunts Our Thoughts

A newly-christened species of giant spider was unveiled this week. Kelly Grovier looks at why these creepy-crawlies have long crouched in the dark corners of our imaginatio...

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Health

Melinda Gates: Contraception Is ‘One Of The Best’ Ways To Fight Poverty

Melinda Gates promoted contraception for women in developing nations yet again in two media opportunities last week. Gates told online CNN readers in an opinion piece, &ldq...

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Human Rights

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi Presses For Enforcement Of Juvenile Justice Act

Nobel Peace Prize winner and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has said that there is a very strong provision under Juvenile Justice Act in the country to stop childr...

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Environment

17 Western Ghats Have Smaller Ranges Than What Experts Estimated

Birds endemic to the biodiverse Western Ghats appear to be in greater danger than they were thought to be, because the range of places they live in may have been overestima...

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