Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 5,050 “It’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man I assumed to be her husband murmured almost inaudibly in response, something to the … Read more
Number of words: 850 Scientists at Harvard University, collaborating with researchers at Bio-Rad Laboratories, have developed a new platform for rapid single-cell sequencing. The approach combines microfluidics and novel software to scale up single-cell ATAC-seq, which identifies parts of the genome that are open and accessible to regulatory proteins.Published in Nature Biotechnology, the innovation signals … Read more
Number of words: 1,282 Tamil is not as emotive an issue for the people of Tamil Nadu, as it is made out to be by the Tamil television channels and English media. If it is so, it is neither reflected in the state’s education system, nor in the education choices of Tamilians.Just a few days … Read more
Number of words: 2,262 For a city that is fixated with its housing, real estate opportunities and acquiring homes with a view, finding a space to call your own in Mumbai carries its own form of trauma. If the rents and EMIs don’t knock the life out of you, it’s the negotiations on the transactions … Read more
Number of words: 596 It was the evolutionary leap that defined the species: while other apes ambled around on all fours, the ancestors of humans rose up on two legs and, from that lofty position, went on to conquer the world. The benefits of standing tall in the African savannah are broadly nailed down, but … Read more
Number of words: 544 Obesity levels are substantially lower in countries that consume high amounts of rice, while counties with lower average rice intake have higher obesity levels, recent findings suggest.The link between rice intake and obesity persisted even after taking into account other lifestyle and socioeconomic risk factors including total energy consumption, education, smoking, … Read more
Number of words: 707 Kolkata’s media, run by and addressed to, bhadralok consumers, has its pyjama strings in knots. Will a saffron wave sweep Bengal? Or will Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) dominate Lok Sabha seats, like the Left Front did before her? Bengal has 42 Lok Sabha constituencies, the third highest in India after … Read more
Number of words: 116 Brilliant Puns:… 1. A man who wants a pretty nurse, must be patient. 2. A man who leaps off a cliff, is jumping to a conclusion. 3. A man running in front of a car gets ‘tired’; And a man running behind a car, gets exhausted. 4. War does not determine … Read more
Number of words: 116 (1) Those who had coins, enjoyed in the rain. Those who had notes, were busy looking for shelter. (2) Man and God both met somewhere. Both exclaimed, “My creator.” (3) He asked, are you a Hindu or Muslim? The response came, “I am hungry”! (4) The fool didn’t know it was … Read more
Number of words: 2,653 Last year, a man-versus-machine showdown took place in the United States. 20 top corporate lawyers from across the country were pitted against an artificial intelligence (AI) software developed by legal technology firm LawGeex, where they reviewed and approved everyday contracts over a period of two months.The results were astounding. The AI … Read more
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