Tara Sattar There are no barriers in languages, it is but a mean of communication that bring people closer. Such is an example that Luca Lampariello showed in his article. Luca learned 11 languages by the age of 35. He suggests learning languages is cool, but he highly doubts that it is challenging. Luca begins…
Syed Nasir Ershad In the Kite Runner, the story drifted on the subjects of friendship, betrayal, guilt, redemption and the uneasy love between father and son. These are universal themes that have been able to reach across cultural, racial, religious and gender gaps to resonate with readers of varying background. The writer’s depiction of pre-revolutionary…
Marilyn Thipthorpe A businessman who aimed to walk from Britain to India without spending a penny to prove a world without money could exist has given up less than a month into his trip. Mark Boyle, 28, set off at the end of last month on his trek from Bristol to Gandhi’s birthplace on India’s…
Marilyn Thipthorpe The pastor of a southwest Florida church opened many eyes and ears Sunday when he said he wants married couples in the congregation to — have sex for 30 days in a row and he wants singles to steer clear of such frolicking for the same length of time. Head pastor Paul Wirth…
Marilyn Thipthorpe DNA from Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings could be used to digitally recreate his face and confirm exactly where he was buried after his death in 1519. Researchers are going to attempt to recover hairs and flakes of skin from within his paintings and notebooks, which could be used to construct how the Italian…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Dozens of works by the Spanish painter Joan Miro are to be auctioned in London, with the profits going towards helping refugees. The sale at Christie’s on Thursday is aiming to raise £40,000 for the Red Cross. The Barcelona painter’s grandson said he is donating the proceeds of the sale of 28 works…
Eshan Maitra New study suggests that we are not the single civilization in this whole wide universe. After all, there are ten-billion-trillion inhabitable planets existing right at the point of telescope vision by the Drake’s equation (introduced in 1961). Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan from the Universities of Rochester and Washington just published their writing…
Samiul Bashar Samin The only reason language works at conveying ideas that work, is because people can understand each other’s private experiences or sensations. Not all experiences or sensations to be sure, but enough of them to have meaningful discussions about them. Take the example of color. Pick two typical, healthy people. The circuitry for…