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Sustainable Development

How Breaking One of the Most Basic Physical Laws Might Explain Dark Energy

A group of theoretical physicists from France and Mexico has offered a fun new what-if for dark energy, one of physics' most profound outstanding mysteries. As described in...

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Sustainable Development

3D Printing Membranes Could Change Water Treatment As We Know It

3D printing has come a long way in the past few years. Printers that once could only produce thick plastic can now churn out flexible material, metal, and now even semi-per...

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Gender

How An Indian Innovator Reverse-Engineered The Making Of Sanitary Pads

Arunachalam Muruganantham had seen the mysterious bloodstained rags before, left discreetly in a corner of his family’s thatched outdoor bathroom. As a teenager growi...

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TV

2017: Year Of Change

Star Plus brought in 2017 with a telecast of the Star Screen Awards. The other channels continued with their weekend programming. The fallout of demonetization, I wonder? E...

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Human Rights

Women Farmers In Northern India Battle Tradition, Self-Doubt To Own Land

Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. But s...

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Bollywood

Here Are The 6 Knockout Female Bollywood Performances Of 2016

2016 has been a roller-coaster ride for Bollywood. While there have been seriously outstanding acts from veterans as well as newcomers, there have been equal number of majo...

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Festivals

It’s time for the Jewish Film Festival

It’s the 18th year of the annual Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, a number that promises luck for movie lovers. The festival, which runs from December 24 to 29 at the ...

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Environment

A Toxic Leak Left Corpus Christi With No Water For Days. A Taste Of Things To Come?

Corpus Christi, Texas, calls itself the “sparkling city by the sea”. But lately it doesn’t feel very sparkling. The city imposed a four-day ban on consumi...

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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 ...

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Gender

Madonna Calling It Like It Is, Tells Us The Sexist Entertainment World Has Rules For Women And None For Men

Madonna smashed the sexist and ageist entertainment industry at the Billboard Women in Music 2016 awards on December 9th. While being honoured as the “Woman of the Ye...

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