Devid Bergman/Bangladesh Politico Why hold a free and fair election which you risk losing, when you can rig it to ensure certain victory, and get away with it? This was clearly in the mind of the Awami League in Bangladesh which three weeks ago won 293 of the 300 parliamentary seats in what must be…
Robyn Silverman/Gulf News A friend recently divulged to me that her 8-year-old daughter had started asking her about death. “Am I going to die? Are you going to die? WHEN?” My friend, taken off guard, changed the subject to something much more palatable: “Who wants ice cream?” Talking to children about tough topics is never…
NTV Online: A Los Angeles-based company is selling used tissues to customers in an effort to allow them to decide when they want to get sick. ‘We believe that when flu season comes around, you should be able to get sick on your terms. We believe using a tissue that carries a human sneeze is…
Eurek Alert: Carbon dioxide emissions can be captured and securely stored in underground rocks, even if geological faults are present, research has confirmed. There is minimal possibility of the gas escaping from fault lines back into the atmosphere, the study has shown. The findings are further evidence that an emerging technology known as Carbon Capture…
IFL Science: Scientists have discovered what may be the oldest rock from Earth, unearthed in a lunar sample collected by Apollo 14 astronauts almost 50 years ago – and its origin story is quite the bumpy ride. So how did a rock from Earth possibly end up on the Moon? It’s likely a large impact…
Tech Explorist: When you play a game of thrones, there are only two outcomes: you either win or you die. The question is, who amongst us has the iron dice stacked in their favour? If you are a male of low birth with a penchant for unwavering loyalty and an insistence on living, you will…
TechSpot: Following its decision to turn The Witcher into a TV series, Netflix is bringing another video game franchise to its library: Resident Evil. Constantin Film, the studio behind the six Paul W. S. Anderson-directed movies, is said to be working with the streaming service to develop the project. In the world of mostly terrible…
Science Alert: A few years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope did something amazing: over the course of 841 orbits and hundreds of exposures, it imaged a tiny region of space in the constellation of Fornax, peeling back the layers of time by 13 billion years, to just a few hundred million years after the Big…
Tech Explorist: According to a new study in the Yale University, American boys experience more pain than the girl despite identical clinical circumstances and identical pain behavior across conditions. At the point when requested to survey how much pain a child is encountering dependent on the perception of identical reactions to a finger-stick, American adults…
The Japan Times: A local fisheries association in western Japan will resume commercial whaling from July 1 for the first time in 31 years, association sources said Thursday. The move comes after Japan announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission in December. An association ship in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, known for its whaling and…