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Environment

All Of The Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living In The Anthropocene

What follows in “The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene,” a new study published in Science, is a laundry list of huma...

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Sustainable Development

Nasa?s Latest Rover Concept Is Inspired By Worms And Amoebas

Every rover we have sent to explore other planets has had the same basic ?lab-on-wheels? design, with the exception of the adorable skiing Prop M robots of the Soviet space...

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Thought Factory

Of Gender Divide

Since the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the human rib on gender issues has not stopped tickling. Left no wiser since Biblical times, the issue remains burning and ...

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Hollywood

The Globe's Emma Rice: 'If Anybody Bended Gender It Was Shakespeare'

The fact that just 16% of Shakespeare’s characters are women– and that most of the memorable lines are spoken by men – will not stop Emma Rice’s mis...

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Health

2015 In Review: Rapid Strides In Public Health

The end of 2015 brings many reasons for celebrations in health sector. We made considerable progress towards achieving the MDGs, SDGs were launched with more ambitious goal...

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Trending

How Smart Animal Shelters Aim For ‘Zero Kill’

When Tracey Durning first met her dog, Fred, in an animal shelter in New York City in 1995, he looked underfed and was shaking uncontrollably. A five-year-old terrier mix w...

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Gender

Gender Bias At Christmas: What If Santa Were A Woman?

For its Christmas film this year, agency Anomaly London decided to ask kids a provocative question: what if Santa were a woman? Their answers, revealed in this cute, but ey...

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Three Stories That Explain Why I Am Relentlessly, Passionately, And Impatiently Optimistic

After a decade and a half of working on the issues facing the world’s poorest people, I like to call myself an impatient optimist. When I visited rural India last mon...

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Kaleidoscope

Crime And Punishment

The film Drishyam (in its many versions), raised curiosity about the Japanese book that inspired it. The bestselling Japanese novel is also reportedly being made into anoth...

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Festivals

Dharmshala Film Festival: Beyond The Glitter Of Rs 100-Crore Club

Mcleodganj or ‘Little Lhasa’ hosted the Dharamshala International Film Festival this year. And a fine host it turned out to be. Special mention must be made of ...

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