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Sustainable Development

This Music App Wants To Improve Your Hearing

Here's how it works: First, you put in your headphones—ideally the ones that came with your phone—and go somewhere quiet. Then, take a hearing test for each ear...

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Sustainable Development

Mathematician Proposes Blocking Tsunamis With Sound Waves

Usama Kadri, a mathematician at Cardiff University in the UK, has published new calculations in the open-access journal Heliyon demonstrating the possibility of neutralizin...

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Festivals

Immersive Film Festival Will Celebrate The Legacy Of John Hughes

You may not be able to find Shermer, Illinois, on a map, but the town where director John Hughes set some of his most beloved films will be a real place for at least four d...

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Alternative Entertainment

When A Book Club Lends More Than Just Books

This story is part of an ongoing campaign called the Alphabet of Illiteracy. By using letters themselves—the foundation of reading and writing—Project Literacy ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Theatre In Karnataka Needs To Map Social Issues

Theatre in Karnataka is not focusing on social issues instead is obsessed with visual details which doesn't bode well for the growth of the theatre movement and society, fe...

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Gender

These 11 Women Do Their Bit For The Environment By Turning Juice Tetra Packs Into Amazing Products

Goats rummage through the waste as you make your way through a maze of cramped lanes — the sound from a television blaring from a neighbouring house, a stray dog lyin...

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Sustainable Development

The Story Of The Bose Wave, The Stereo System Built For The Infomercial Era

Odds are that sometime in the last couple of decades or so, someone in your group of friends or family has received a snazzy countertop radio from a loved one.But it wasn&r...

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Alternative Entertainment

This Hearing Impaired Artist Paints With Coffee. And Her Work Is Amazing.

Dressed smartly in a lemon green top and blue jeans, Amita Dutta sat inconspicuously at her stall like any other person. It was the brilliant array of coffee paintings disp...

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Sustainable Development

The Hype Around Medical Genetics Could Be Bad for the Public

Science has always issued medical promissory notes. In the 17th century, Francis Bacon promised that an understanding of the true mechanisms of disease would enable us to e...

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Human Rights

"Disability rights must be strengthened legally"

"The legal framework of India itself discriminates against people with disabilities," said Rajiv Rajan, Human Rights Law Network, here on Wednesday. He was addressing an or...

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