8 Social Media Blunders Every Brand Must Avoid

Internet is peppered with examples of how brands have made some huge blunders on Social Media. When hitting the publish button on your brand’s social media page, make...

We Just Witnessed the First Public Hyperloop Test

The demonstration was held by Hyperloop One (formerly Hyperloop Technologies), largely considered the frontrunner in the hyperloop field. Hyperloop One executives called th...

Fighting Climate Change Burp By Burp

In grassy fields and research labs around the world, scientists are making a herculean effort to help fight climate change: one cow burp at a time.

Driven by pressu...

Safia Manto: The Woman Who Stood By The Writer Through All Times

So little is known and even less written about the women who have unflinchingly supported their celebrated men. It is true that SafiaDeen would not have been known had she ...

Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

If You Don't Vote, You Have No Right ToComplain On Social Media: Shah Rukh Khan

CHENNAI: Taking three months off from acting, Bollywood's baadshah Shah Rukh Khan has been spending five hours a day exercising. But exercising the right to vote, was all h...

What Effect Does Paid Maternity Leave Have On Infant Mortality?

For each additional month of paid maternity leave offered in low- and middle-income countries, infant mortality is reduced by 13 percent.
“A significant number o...

Fighting Poverty, Stabilizing Peace

The United Nations is more needed today than at any time since the Cold War. It is the only place on Earth where any nation, state or government can talk to any other natio...

This Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants to Give Us All Robot Bodies

The Beam was designed as a video conferencing tool, allowing instant, face-to-face communication—kind of like FaceTime or Skype, except you can drive the screen on le...