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This Feminist Film Festival Highlights The Importance Of Female-Led Stories

With gender inequality in the film industry as rampant and problematic as it is, it's important to point out all the things that Hollywood could be doing better when it com...

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Sustainable Development

'Eternal' Data Storage Is Here

Like most, my personal requirements for long-term data storage pretty much end when I end. So, we're talking decades, and certainly not centuries or millennia. I'd even say...

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Gender

How Society Pays When Women's Work Is Unpaid

In countries around the world, the ways in which men and women spend their time are unbalanced. Men spend more time working for money. Women do the bulk of the unpaid work ...

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Health

Why India Needs Its Quack Doctors.

Toward the end of last year, reports emerged that the Liver Foundation, a health NGO in India’s West Bengal state, had started working with local quack doctors. The t...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Theatre Of Tolerance

As the sensitive Aligarh about the persecution of a gay professor releases, the positive response to it shows that ordinary people are getting over their prejudice...

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Festivals

Berlin Film Festival 2016 Roundup: Serious Gems And Stylish Risks.

The Coens splashed out, Cynthia Nixon channelled Emily Dickinson, Ivo Ferreira shone with his poignant docudrama on war in Angola – and Meryl Streep marshalled a hard...

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Trending

‘Only Gandhi Wrote About Paupers’

Perhaps no other scholar in the social sciences has studied India’s poor and its informal economy as intensively as Jan Breman. The sheer temporal span of his researc...

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Sustainable Development

Neuroscientists Score A Rare Hit Against An Impenetrable Face Of Schizophrenia

One of the most prevalent and difficult-to-treat symptoms of schizophrenia isn't hearing voices or paranoia or any of the more popularly associated features of the disease&...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Theatre Of Conflict

Last week, Palestinian director Faisal Abu Alhayjaa wrote on Facebook about his house being attacked by the Israeli army, his brother being arrested and dragged out in fron...

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Sustainable Development

Why It’s Taking So Long To Get To 5G

It’s only been five years since 4G mobile broadband came along and made it possible to browse the internet and stream videos on your phone at a decent speed. 4G speed...

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