Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2016 Competition, Next Films

The latest films by returning Park City alums So Yong Kim, Antonio Campos, Jeff Baena and Chad Hartigan; timely documentaries on gun control, abortion rights...

Anushka On Gender Discrimination: An Actor Gets A Better Hotel Room Than An Actress.

Gender discrimination has existed in our society for quite some time now but there are rarely people who speak about it. Bollywood has also been a great victim of gender di...

There's No Such Thing As A 'Male Brain' Or 'Female Brain,' And Scientists Have The Scans To Prove It.

Do you have a male brain or a female brain? The answer, according to science, is no. If you didn’t expect this to be a yes-or-no question, you’re not alone. Mal...

Maternal Mortality Declining But Still Above Goal

Maternal mortality rates have dropped substantially over the past quarter century but still are not declining fast enough to meet ambitious international goals for eradicat...

China's 'Airpocalypse' Prompts Official Pledge to Cut Pollution

China will lower emissions from major polluting power plants by 60 percent by 2020, Chinese officials announced on Wednesday. The commitment?comes amidst ongoing climate ch...

This Space Mission Could Upend Our Basic Notions of Newtonian Gravity

Sir Isaac Newton probably didn't get conked on the head by a falling apple, but by many, if not most accounts, there was an apple and it did fall in his presence. Having wi...

VEER & NCPEDP Celebrate World Disability Day With ‘Walk To Freedom’

13 Women Who Transformed The World Of Economics.

Economist Justin Wolfers recently wrote about how female economists are airbrushed out of academic discussion when they have a male co-author. We decided to bring...

Sundance 2016 Film Festival: Latinos Represent In The World Cinema Competition.

The Sundance Film festival has announced its competition slates with many Latinos among the World Cinema Competition. This year Colombia will be presented with the new film...