Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 402 The newsbooks and early newspapers of the seventeenth century extolled accuracy and facts with rhetorical flair, but what they published in reality had no semblance of truth and accuracy. Newspapers peppered their pages with scandalous, often totally false accounts worthy of today’s most sensational tabloids, and political and religious partisanship was rampant. … Read more
Number of words: 128 The printing press enabled news to reach a larger audience at a vastly reduced cost, though it was not the death knell for oral news exchanged in coffeehouses, at home, and in city streets. In the sixteenth century, news was still being called out by criers in the streets and recited … Read more
Number of words: 123 While all people enjoy good news and gossip, it is accurate news that matters most to society. The desire for factual information is an inseparable component of news and has emerged as the foundation of modern journalism. It is also the foundation upon which people and societies make important decisions and … Read more
Number of words: 3,128 Even as the Central government and its spokespersons work overtime to sell the benefits of the three new farm laws to the Indian public, the farmers protesting on Delhi’s borders have made it clear that they will not retreat till these laws are repealed. Caught between the crossfire of misinformation and … Read more
Number of words: 1,299 The final months of 2020 were a tough end to a tough year, according to BP’s chief executive. But Bernard Looney’s verdict on the worst financial year in the industry’s history is a devastating understatement. It was a period marked by thousands of job cuts, battered dividend policies and record multibillion-dollar … Read more
Number of words: 463 Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Dresden made the sludgy gray paste, which heats hydrogen with magnesium and stabilizers so the hydrogen can be stored in cartridges even at room temperature. That’s it in the photo above. What results is a stable medium that its … Read more
Number of words: 1,468 On February 18, NASA’s Perseverance rover will parachute through thin Martian air, marking a new era in red planet exploration. Landing on the Jezero Crater, which is located north of the Martian equator, will be no easy feat. Only about 40 percent of the missions ever sent to Mars succeed, according to … Read more
Number of words: 346 From the first century of the Christian era onwards wave after wave of Indian colonists spread east and south-east reaching Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Siam, Cambodia, and Indo-China. Some of them managed to reach Formosa, the Philippine Islands and Celebes. Even as far as Madagascar the current language is … Read more
Number of words: 1,047 My early approach to life’s problems had been more or less scientific, with something of the easy optimism of the science of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. A secure and comfortable existence and the energy and self-confidence I possessed increased that feeling of optimism. A kind of vague humanism appealed … Read more
Number of words: 2,686 The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months for centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynical image of humanity has been proclaimed in films and novels, history books and scientific research. But in the … Read more
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