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Thanksgiving turkey and drinking water
The US CPSC says you shouldn't try to deep-fry a frozen Thanksgiving turkey. But why not?
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Reporters in Delhi should get a wintertime allowance
No amount of fondness or pride for situating themselves in the national capital can save journalism establishments from the steady toll the city is taking on their journalists.
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The power of the Sun
It's only the hypernova that really harnesses the power of the Sun.
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We did start the fire
An 'air purification' ritual by Indian priests in Tokyo is one of the dumbest things I've seen done in a while.
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Cybersecurity in space
Physical access to an internet-enabled object is no longer necessary to mess with it.
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Lab test to check for beef works best if meat is uncooked
The technique used to check for a meat’s origins works best when the meat is raw and worst when it is pan-fried.
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Corrected: Environmental journalism in India and false balance
If only in Indian environmental journalism, there is no Other Side anymore for sure.
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Lingua franca
Featured image credit: allypark/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Guilt can be just as disabling as arrogance, however. The political good which Spivak has done far outweighs the fact that she leads a well-heeled life in the States. If complicity means living in capitalist society, then just about everyone but
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ToI successfully launches story using image from China
Has the prime-mover of our space programme been taken hostage by the consequences of not separating space research from defence research?
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Corrected: 'Life's Greatest Secret' by Matthew Cobb
'Life's Greatest Secret' focuses on those efforts to explore the DNA that were only a sideshow in 'The Gene' but possess intrigues of their own.
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Anthropocene
It’s an epoch whose centre of attention de facto is the human even as the attention makes us more conscious of the other multitudes with which we share this universe.
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UCal Irvine’s ‘fifth force’ farce
If a journalist buys into a UCI press release about some kind of ‘confirmation’ of a fifth force, and which is subsequently found to be simply false, an editor wouldn’t be faced with a tough choice whatsoever about which section she has to axe.