Number of words: 766 What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object?  In a recent speech in Brussels marking International Data Privacy Day, Apple CEO Tim Cook went on the offensive against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Cook’s speech seems to be a direct response to Facebook’s recent attack on Apple, in which the world’s largest social network took … Read more

Number of words: 433 Chances are, the works of the world’s insects touch your lips every day. The coffee or tea you savor, both are pollinated by insects. Apples, oranges, cabbages, cashews, cherries, carrots, broccoli, watermelon, garlic, cinnamon, basil, sunflower seeds, almonds, canola oil — all are insect-pollinated. Honey, dyes, even some vaccines require insects to come … Read more

Number of words: 398 Three  is a story about architects that reflects current beliefs about that discipline and its relation to education. When a certain school of architecture asked its graduates what they had found most wanting in their architectural education, the responses ran somewhat as follows: graduates who had been out of school five … Read more

Number of words: 912 ‘We’d be reduced to a country of incarcerated artists and flourishing lapdogs if powerful institutions continue to show an inability to tolerate rebuke,’ says Kunal Kamra in Supreme Court. Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra defended in the Supreme Court on Friday his alleged scandalous tweets against the judiciary saying if the court … Read more

Number of words: 221 The online trading app Robinhood became a cultural phenomenon and a Silicon Valley darling with a promise to wrest the stock market away from Wall Street’s traditional gatekeepers and “let the people trade” — making it as easy to put millions of dollars at risk as it is to summon an … Read more

Number of words: 231 Liberty of a citizen cannot be taken away in this manner, the Supreme Court has said while setting aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court order which had dismissed a plea filed by a man on the grounds that his lawyer had remained absent on four occasions during the hearing. The … Read more

Number of words: 4,884 Peter Turchin, one of the world’s experts on pine beetles and possibly also on human beings, met me reluctantly this summer on the campus of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he teaches. Like many people during the pandemic, he preferred to limit his human contact. He also doubted whether … Read more

Number of words: 353 On November 1, the Mumbai Police arrested three Ola cab drivers for allegedly conning several passengers by manipulating the mobile application to add more kilometres to the destination, thereby increasing the fare. The police found that at least 40 cab drivers had taken advantage of a glitch in an outdated version … Read more

Number of words: 397 Ahmedabad: ‘I could not clear the final summer internship interviews for my top 3 preferred firms despite being on hotlist inone of them,’ writes a student. Another writes, ‘I failed in Class XII exam as I didn’t know how to write in English.’These are just the two of the 26 and … Read more

Number of words: 592 In 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground on the south coast of Sweden, just 6.2 miles from a Swedish naval base. The Soviets claimed that they were forced into Swedish territory by severe distress, and later navigation errors, while Sweden saw it as proof that the then Soviet Union was pissing … Read more