DOT Desk: Flower farmers of Bogura district are passing busy time to supply large quantities of flowers for celebrating February 21 with much fervour, reports The Financial Express. They are expecting to grow flowers worth Tk 20 million for this peak period. A good number of extreme poor farmers of the region mostly depend on…
Mohammad Ayesh/Middle East Monitor In the past few years, Israel, the alien state in the region, has been sleeping in peace in a way that it has never dreamt of since it was founded more than seven decades ago. Meanwhile, the Arabs are drowning in war and blood day after day. If we expand our…
Ed Yong/The Atlantic In frigid waters, their ability to keep their bodies warm gives them an edge over sharks and fish. When ecologists watch nature documentaries, sometimes they get ideas for research projects. John Grady, an ecologist from Michigan State University, kept seeing those inevitable scenes in which shoals of hapless fish are demolished by…
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…