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Strawberry Full Moon: A Magical Tale of Harvests, Legends, and Moonlit Traditions Behind June's Most Beautiful MoonThe Strawberry Full Moon is much more than a stunning celestial event. From Native American harvest traditions to European folklore and mod...
KT Achaya’s book on food, shows the value of indexingKT Achaya's meticulous documentation of Indian food, starting with his chemist background, revolutionized how culinary history is approache...
What is this viral claim about medieval European women 'poisoning' their husbands daily? History behind internet’s dark discussionA viral story claims medieval European women poisoned husbands daily, giving an antidote at night. Historians say this practice never happe...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photoA 15-year-old boy named Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux became an internet sensation. He was photographed at the Louvre on the day of a crown je...
Why Kamal Hassan's kiss unsettled fansKamal Haasan's new film Thug Life sparks debate. His character's romance with a younger woman raises eyebrows. The film highlights the age ...
Man asked his Tesla to take him somewhere new. What happened next left even Elon Musk in splitsA Tesla owner’s request to be taken “somewhere new” ended humorously when the car drove him to a gym; a place he’d never visited. The momen...
'If Snapchat existed back then': AI creator’s hilarious and haunting Gen Z–style historical selfies leave the internet spellboundAn Instagram page @timeless_snaps uses AI. It reimagines historical figures with modern filters. Christopher Columbus, Princess Diana and I...
Friday the 13th Superstition: Why this date is considered unlucky and what fuels superstitionsFriday the 13th Superstition History: Friday the 13th is often considered unlucky, with some people even having a phobia of the date. This ...
For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of lifeOur data is polluted by a set of myths from the age of "enlightenment", including biases that lead to discrimination based on gender and se...
View: Future of democracy is literally in India's handsGiven the current mass regression into fantasy, it seems almost immaterial who wins elections next month.
A look at some of the wackiest and most viral trendsIt's not the safest thing to do, but since when has that stopped people from trying out the zaniest things, as long as it helps them rack u...
View: Three reasons why a cashless society would be a disasterA fully cashless society would mean the end of privacy. There would be a digital trail of every action you take through your purchases and ...
Incognito browsing isn't really 'private': 15 such gadget myths bustedWe tell you 15 reasons why you shouldn't believe everything you need on the internet.
Search engines don't need to track people to make money: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel WeinbergDuckDuckGo— 'the search engine that doesn't track you'— is becoming popular in the US and Europe, especially after privacy concerns spiked ...
Here are five myths about Google that will never dieIf you are using Google's services, including search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube etc. Google knows almost everything about you.
Data-crunched, digital-driven: A watershed election in more ways than oneThe election to the Lok Sabha, House of the people, termed as the largest peacetime exercise in living history, has been exceptional in man...
Rescuing 'Idea of India' from the clutches of political jingoismIn truth, the idea of India belongs to us. We, not any party, are its inheritors from parents who courageously loosened nooses of creed and...
- Karur chief picks holes in bigger is better theory
If the last credit crisis blew up a myth, it was that banks have to be bigger to survive and the small ones have to amalgamate with the gia...
Myth on stock market boom: Is it different this time...?There is a myth attached to each bout of stock mkt boom. With P/E ratio moving dangerously past 20, look out for emerging myths.
- India, China leaders in global newspaper circulation
Contrary to the myth that newspapers are losing out to TV channels and Internet, their numbers and circulation moved higher last year acros...