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The Dispersants Used After The BP Blowout Did More Harm Than Good

Chemical dispersants were supposed to make it easier for undersea bacteria to digest the oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Read More

Sustainable Development

3D-Printing Explains Why Your Food Smells So Good

Pretty much everything about food is awesome, but smell and taste tend to be the best parts. These two aspects of enjoying a meal are inextricably linked?the only reason yo...

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Retroscope

MANNA DEY

It was in late 1996 that I started the Bimal Roy Memorial with a view to honour my father, whose films continued to thrill audiences, and still do. Very few individuals fro...

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Festivals

Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival Winners And Disappointments

When festival director Tine Fischer started CPH: DOX 13 years ago, her mission was to “take documentary into as many directions as possible.” This meant the cre...

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Health

A Record 290 Million Women, Girls In Poor Nations Are Using Contraception: Report

A record 290.6 million women and girls in the world's poorest nations are using modern methods of contraception, averting millions of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abor...

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Environment

China Is Tapping Tibetan Glaciers To Meet Growing Demand For Bottled Water

Driven both by convenience and concerns about the country's widespread pollution, the Chinese drank nearly 10.6 billion gallons of bottled water in 2013, the Hong Kong-base...

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Sustainable Development

Bumblebees Are Teaching Smart Cars How To Drive

A newly-awarded research grant from the National Science Foundation is devoting $300,000 to a project to study the ways that bumblebees navigate, and to apply tha...

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Hollywood

George Clooney Visits Charity Cafe In Scotland

George Clooney visited a cafe in Scotland today that gives 100% of it’s profits to charity. The actor took the time to visit Social Bite in Edinburgh, a soc...

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Health

There Is A Life Beyond Cancer: Manisha

Her most memorable and strong female characters in Bombay, Dil Se, and Khamoshi were nearly from two decades back, but real-life heroine Manisha Koirala, who survived cance...

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Bollywood

There Is A Life Beyond Cancer: Manisha

Her most memorable and strong female characters in Bombay, Dil Se, and Khamoshi were nearly from two decades back, but real-life heroine Manisha Koirala, who survived cance...

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