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Wisdom of the crowdsA weight-judging competition may not sound like a complex task, but this experiment was again run in May 1968, when US submarine Scorpion d...- Thumbing through the history of handprintsThe debate over giving fingerprints invading one’s privacy is on. But with fingerprint identification for devices on the rise, we may now b...
- Investing and Forecasting by Anand Vardarjan, Business Head, Tata MFIn 1906 famous statistician Francis Galton attended a fair in Plymouth where participants had to guess the weight of an ox and the one who ...
- Meanwhile in the future: To stop climate change, we must genetically engineer humansA lot of researchers are thinking about how to genetically engineer crops and food animals to help them withstand post-climate change heat.
- El-Niño phenomenon: Lessons government can take from failings of Victorian predecessorsThe understanding is what can change our experience of ENSO today. Knowing that it is coming makes it all the more important to be prepared.
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