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There's a monster behind the doorThe Dessaintes parents, while providing basic necessities, neglected their child's intellectual curiosity. They consistently avoided explan...- Middle management is watching youA Malaysian woman's boss asked her to share her live location during her vacation. The boss cited a new company rule. Employees who failed ...
- China's lunar lander brings back something astonishing from the moon, everything we knowChina's Chang'e-5 lunar lander that returned to the Earth after exploring the far end of the moon, has come back with some interesting arte...
- Are humans at risk from giant asteroid approaching the Earth? All you need to knowHumans are currently at a risk of being wiped out from the surface of the Earth if an asteroid hurtling towards the planet really crashes d...
- Don't consign them to the textbooks!Ramayan and Mahabharat stories have brought enjoyment and pleasure to generations of young people. However, NCERT should not include these ...
- Techie-easy policy for desi bachelorsPerhaps this story of rupture of happy nuptials has a silver lining. By returning to the 'all is forgiven, come back home' motherland, the ...
- Smells like kindred spirit, A BO storyThere’s no stronger bond between friends than their, um, body odour
- Is That Cooked, or Ready for Cooking?Taxmen don’t have the palate for fine non-distinctions like microwaveable meals and ready-to-eat dishes. They suspect much value being smug...
- Spare the time, spoil the mindDamned if you have no free time, damned if you have too much free time? Once again (funded) research backs up common sense as boffins, clea...
- Let’s just forgive #FacebookGustakhi and #ResignToFateResigning ourselves to people’s honest mistakes is the right thing to do.
- Now, a new level of hand-AI coordinationA machine to monitor washing of hands is to be expected from the Japanese.
- Putting the fizz and pizzazz into physicsScience and humour: a punny thing happened on the way to the lab.
- 'Guilty pleasures are overrated'The inability to feel guilty leads to non-cooperation movements, say the boffins from Nottingham, ironically, once the home of the most gui...
- Making a beeline for new skillsMore relevantly, though, this exercise proved that the size of brains do not necessarily determine the ability to learn new skills or adapt...
- So what's this happiness skill?And in India, only Sikkim and Madhya Pradesh governments appear to take happiness seriously. Whether a ministry of happiness — as mooted by...
- Footing the bill, so that it might fitThe boffins in the British monitoring and technical surveillance arm GCHQ are supposed to be smarter than the average Joe.
- APJ Abdul Kalam: Rocket scientist to rockstar RashtrapatiThat is what Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam did in his years at Rashtrapati Bhavan between 2002 and 2007, bringing in openness and inf...
- To Write, Run!Science is now corroborating Japanese master’s advice: boffins have found that mental fatigue does set in after you have been sitting down ...
- The Future PerfectThe current contretemps over Tripoli reminded your scribe of the prediction the anonymous poet made about Kali Yuga in the Vishnu Purana: “...
- Holy finger, hand divineOur ancestors came from outer space. And the chariots these gods used were fiery meteorites, says a Nasa boffin.
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