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April 16, 2016 How sexually transmitted diseases might have driven the evolution of monogamy
Researchers show that an STD similar to gonorrhea could have got rid of promiscuous behavior in agricultural societies. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons | Bride and groom, 1900-1910 Exactly why so many humans choose monogamous pair bonds over juggling multiple partners has long been a mystery to scientists. After all, having several partners at the same time […]
NEWS April 16, 2016 Delhi painted on ivory: Scenes from the Mughal and British era
The collection of topographical paintings are reflective of the city’s history. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Previous posts on the subject of late Mughal or Delhi miniature paintings on ivory have dealt with portraits, with which the Visual Arts collection is well endowed. Not so well represented in the earlier collection are topographical paintings on ivory, so […]
NEWS April 16, 2016 Are France’s #NuitDebout protests the start of a new political movement?
Proposed labour reforms in France have sparked mass protests led by young people who want to reclaim democracy from the elite. Image credit: Alain Jocard/AFP | Jean-Baptiste Redde holds a banner reading “Labour law – throw it into the water” as he takes part in a protest march against the proposed reforms of France’s labour laws […]
COMPUTERS April 15, 2016 Meet the Laptop With 64GB RAM, 5TB SSD, and 6 USB Ports
If the current lineup of high-end laptops in the market isn’t cutting it for you, Eurocom’s new offering may interest you. The Canadian computer manufacturer has launched its Sky X9W laptop, a ‘mobile workstation’ upgrade to its already impressive Sky X9 that it released in October last year. Much like many other good things in […]
COUPONS April 11, 2016 How many coupons in the Sunday paper?
MORE ON THIS Coupon Previews website 2016 Coupon Insert Schedule Harris Teeter Super Doubles rumor! Smart Shopper Sunday newspaper coupon database Coupsfortroops.org website How many coupon inserts will we have in the Sunday paper on April 3, 2016? There should be 3 total inserts this week including 1 Smart Source, 1 RedPlum and 1 P&G! […]
ELECTRONICS April 10, 2016 Nexus 5, iPhone 6s, MacBook, Surface Pro 3, and Other Deals of the Week
This week we have the iPhone 6s, MacBooks, Kindle Paperwhite and a lot more going at a discount. 1. Apple iPhone 6s 128GB Paytm is offering a cashback of Rs. 10,000 on the iPhone 6s 128GB (all colors). This brings down the effective price of the iPhone 6s 128GB to Rs. 54,783 (space grey variant) […]
ELECTRONICS April 8, 2016 ‘Detachables’ the Hot New Thing in Cooling Tablet Market: IDC
The global market for tablet computers will see another decline in 2016, but one bright spot is in “detachables” which are gaining as PC replacements, researchers said Tuesday. A report by research firm IDC said tablet sales worldwide are likely to slip 5.9 percent this year to 195 million units, following a drop of 10 […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 Panama Papers: How a global media operation held the rich and powerful to account
Image credit: Reuters/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti With the Panama Papers exposé perhaps we can now say the fortress walls of offshore secrecy are finally cracking. Such havens allow corruption and tax avoidance to take place on a massive international scale by some of the richest and most powerful people on Earth. Meanwhile, the poor get poorer. Western […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 In Tamil Nadu, the Forest Department is being forced to kill tigers
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Rana was on a single-minded mission. His task: to find a tiger, an alleged “man-eater” before it killed again. Sniffing out wild cats is his speciality. The 27-month-old German Shepherd belongs to the Special Tiger Protection Force at Bandipur in Karnataka and is specially trained to detect wild animals in dense forests […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 The Sri Sri syndrome: What we should not forget about so-called gurus and godmen
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Even as the high-decibel criticism of students from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad University continues unabated, the riverside celebration of “Hindu-India” curated by the self-anointed Sri Sri has been forgotten. It has dissolved into the polluted air that hangs over the Yamuna. This so-called guru initially proclaimed that he would pay no […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 Explainer: Why #PanamaPapers is just the tip of the iceberg
Image credit: Carllos Jasso/Reuters The leak of information from the database of Mossack Fonseca, the giant law firm headquartered in Panama, is a reality check. Not because the information, which went public in India late Sunday night, exposes over 214,000 offshore companies typically used as structures to evade taxation connected to people in over 200 countries. […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 How JNU and HCU were ranked as the best universities in the country (and why it may not matter much)
Image credit: PTI They might have been called dens of anti-nationalists and good for nothing. But on Monday, the government added another label to Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad Central University: The best educational institutions in the country. In its first-ever nationwide ranking of educational institutions and other universities, JNU and HCU came in at the […]
