Tech Explorist: Scientists for the first time have drilled over two kilometers through the ice sheet in West Antarctica using hot water. This study will help them see how the region will react to a warming climate. A team of 11 scientists is working on the Rutford Ice Stream for the last 12 weeks in…
Science Alert: The markets of Southeast Asia are common places to find the fossils of insects, embedded in amber millions of years old. But last year, gemologist Brian Berger found something much more rare and astonishing. The piece he bought features an insect inclusion, except it’s not preserved in amber – the lithified resin of…
AFP: It was billed as the world’s cheapest car and shaped like a jelly bean – but after a bumpy 10-year ride, India’s Tata Nano is nearing the end of the road. Tata Motors, India’s top automaker, said on Thursday (Jan 24) that it could stop manufacturing and selling the vehicle from April next year…
Science News: After some 20 years of theorizing, a scientist is publicly renouncing the “beautiful hypothesis” that male birds’ sexy songs could indicate the quality of their brains. Behavioral ecologist Steve Nowicki of Duke University called birdsong “unreliable” as a clue for choosy females seeking a smart mate, in a paper published in the March…
Washington Post: The notion that fake news exists in its own universe turns out to be doubly true: One universe is the realm outside truth. The other is its own seedy pocket of social media. In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, political scientists surveyed the inhabitants of this Internet pocket around…
NTV Online: A white glamour model who claims to have ‘changed’ race after having a series of tanning injections has left people stunned with her latest revelation. German model Martina Big, 30, who has been taking melanin injections for two years and now ‘identifies as a black woman’, appeared on British TV yesterday (Monday) with…
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…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : Laying emphasis on a national unity forgetting all the differences to take the country forward, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said her government will eliminate corruption from the country. “Now, we need a national unity; we’ve to move forward unitedly forgetting our differences. The link of our unity will…
John Podhoretz/ New York Post Can social media be saved? We had better hope so. Over the past week, we have seen a virtual lynch mob hunt a group of high schoolers almost exclusively on the basis of truncated viral footage — and there has actually been an ongoing argument about whether what has happened…
Fayazuddin Ahmad writes for DOT : Adolescence is already a confusing period for young people. Quick modernization, change of values due to urban and global influence may make this confusion more complex for rural and traditional youths. The widespread propagation of virtual socialization using cellphone, digital footprint and social media escalates the dynamics. These quick…