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That the switch from newspapers to digital handheld devices - for the purpose of sourcing all my news - is limited only by my comfort-level with technology is telling of some shortcoming of the print industry. The changing journalistic scene is a reflection of the way people engage publicly and
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Access to multiple sources of news over the internet increases aspirations corresponding to news consumption: readers don’t have to restrict themselves anymore to news that we or they think will be useful to them. Consequently, news aggregators become more than that: they are now personalized news repositories from which
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Paul Broca announced in 1861 that the region of the brain now named after him was the "seat of speech". Through a seminal study, researchers Nancy Kanwisher and Evelina Fedorenko from MIT announced on October 11, 2012, that Broca's area actually consists of two sub-units, and
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My article on this interview and Dr. Soundararajan's opinions appeared in The Hindu's EducationPlus supplement on October 22, 2012 titled "It's a mixed bag". -- Dr. Kannan Soundararajan is a professor at Stanford University and the director of its Mathematics Research Center.
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Some points generated during a discussion with a friend: 1. The Nobel Prizes used to be definitive of the orientation of scientific research in the past; however, staying on top of all recognition now is impossible as fields of research have diversified beyond Alfred Nobel’s, and the foundation’s,
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Across six decades, the European Union has stressed repeatedly on the importance of democracy and human rights. In the process, it set up a system that offered great humanitarian, and therefore popular, benefits to nations willing to join it. In return, it asked for the nations to stop warring, start
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Just saw this news-tweet by the Hindustan Times: https://twitter.com/htTweets/status/255577025732030464 Clicking on the link and opening the news-report, I see that it was a team of scientists led by one of Indian-origin who made the discovery. Moreover, the existence of supermassive black holes has been known
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Symmetry in nature is a sign of unperturbedness. It means nothing has interfered with a natural process, and that its effects at each step are simply scaled-up or scaled-down versions of each other. For this reason, symmetry is aesthetically pleasing, and often beautiful. Consider, for instance, faces. Symmetry of facial
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The first answer is "No". I mean, whatever you're writing about, the onus is on the writer to break his subject down to its simplest components, and then put them back together in front of the reader's eyes. If the writer fails to do
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Disgusting things are broken, unnatural manifestations of beauty in an otherwise beautiful world. If anything, isn't it the symmetrical and the alluring that we must fear for their full mastery over chaos? Disgusting things are defeated things. With our fear comes the baleful regard we credit them with,
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The oldest galaxies are observed today as elliptical, and to be found in clusters. These clusters are the remnants of older protoclusters that dominated the landscape of outer space in the universe's early years, years that witnessed the formation of the first stars and, subsequently, the first galaxies.
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Are destructive but naturally occurring environmental phenomena important to Earth's atmosphere? Does the mere acceptance of its innate "environmentalness" free it from having to tolerate human intervention? For example, how do hurricanes contribute to Earth's atmosphere and the atmosphere's "well-being"