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Farm Researchers Are Using Military Face-Recognition Software To Inspect Grapes

Somewhere in a field in South Carolina, a robot drives slowly through the dry soil between tall, swaying rows of sorghum: a nutrient-rich grain. The robot scans the stalks of ...

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Humans May Be Living In Triassic-Period Conditions By 2250

The Triassic Period was a gnarly time to be alive on Earth, and not only because it was Act One of the age of dinosaurs. This epoch stretched from 251 to 199 million years ago...

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Queer Film Festivals Way Beyond Forum For Cinema

Diverse and complex, South Florida’s LGBTQ community enjoys a full calendar throughout the year. The wide array of activities and events — from pool parties and ba...

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There Are No Gharanas, There Is Only Music

There are so many memories. First of all it is still not sinking that Kishoriji is no more. It happened so suddenly. In fact, somebody who is known to me and organises music f...

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People Are Squeamish About Female Sexuality: Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar doesn’t beat around the bush or dress up her words. And her video last month with Taapsee Pannu, which addressed the issue of how much cleavage is good eno...

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Oprah Winfrey Will Deliver Agnes Scott Commencement Address This May

Global media leader, philanthropist, producer and actress Oprah Winfrey will deliver the commencement address for Agnes Scott College’s 128th graduation ceremony on Satu...

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Javed Akhtar The New Chairman Of Revamped IPRS

Mumbai, 6thApril, 2017: Fresh elections were held after more than a decade in the revamped IPRS, in which both the authors (music composers and lyricists) and publishers (musi...

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India’s Forest Cover Increasing, Better Than World Average, Says Union Environment Secretary

Ajay Narayan Jha, secretary, ministry of environment and forests, said at the inauguration of the 19th Commonwealth forestry conference that began at the Forest Research Insti...

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You Can’t Close The Gender Gap In Science And Tech Without Equal Pay

We're in the midst of a push from governments and nonprofits alike to get more women in science, from preschool to the postgraduate level. There are still significantly fewer ...

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50 Years Ago This Week: How Birth Control Changed Everything

The subject of this week's cover story cost, as TIME noted, just 11 cents to make per unit—but, in the less than a decade of its existence, it had already "changed and l...

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INTERGENERATIONAL CINEMA COURAGE CREATIVE DIALOGUE

At the Self-Discovery: Rediscovering India Festival 2026, led by Neville Tuli, emerging ...

February 15 2026

POWER, PRIVILEGE, AND OUR SILENCE

A searing reflection on the Epstein revelations and what they expose about unchecked pow...

February 14 2026

AMITABH BACHCHAN: HINDI CINEMA’S DARK EDGE

The Greatest villain that Hindi films could not have…though one is not complainin...

February 13 2026