Samiul Bashar Samin For centuries, human hereditary improvement was a problem in social, not biological, engineering: how to persuade or coerce people into marrying to benefit the population as a whole. The obvious analogy was to agriculture and animal husbandry. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates says that only the best citizens would be allowed to mate,…
Marilyn Thipthorpe It may be time to rewrite history textbooks. Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have uncovered evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8,000 years old, and not 5,500 years old, taking root well before the Egyptian (7000BC to 3000BC) and Mesopotamian (6500BC to 3100BC) civilizations. What’s more,…
Marilyn Thipthorpe I thought Kambo was just a fiction invented to spice up books and movies, or maybe a myth that had been passed down the generations. But as it turns out, it is much more than that. It is a sacred and healing medicine that has been used by indigenous people for centuries. Secreted…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Experts say sex robot prostitutes are just around the corner – and will help fight human trafficking and the spread of sexual diseases. According to a bizarre paper in an academic journal, red-light districts will be transformed by 2050 with the introduction of the robotic sex workers. Ian Yeoman, a scientist specializing in…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Who said Sakhubai was all alone? When the 60-year-old, who lived by herself in Malad East’s Squatters’ Colony, slipped into death’s cold embrace at a hospital on Thursday, she was surrounded by the people who adored her and respected her religious beliefs, regardless of their own. So, yesterday, in a touching display of…
Eshan Maitra It is fun being a big huggy bear who has big bones. But the fact is, it also makes you feel sleepy and lazy like a bear. It is hard to get up from an afternoon nap, or sometimes even from the chair. The more you pet this habit of being “Fat n’…
Samiul Bashar Samin For all that ‘province of all mankind’ talk, space travel has always been shaped by acquisitive impulses, though historically these have been national rather than private. You might have noticed the American flags on the Moon; the American country musician Brad Paisley has an American song called American Flag on the Moon…
Nusrat Jahan Progga Most of us have heard of the famous Spiderman quote “With great power come great responsibility”. However, most of us often tend to forget about the responsibilities and even worse, take advantage of our powers. Now imagine, what if there is a woman with great power and no responsibilities, but she is…
Tara Sattar United States of America had dropped a bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 71 years ago which exhilarated the entire city and killed about 140,000 soldiers and civilians. Ever since, none of the American President has paid a visit to the once devastated land. But, that history is about to change. President…