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Musicology is an academic discipline because of a reason.

As in the song Little Boxes, music, as said often, is like magic

Going on from there, music in the dialogue form has taken so many shapes.

3 Jan 2020 2:10 AM IST

A new divide in education over digital learning, Internet access

A new divide in education over digital learning, Internet access

The same sort of debate occurred, to use one example, over mathematical calculations.

14 Sept 2019 1:11 AM IST

Gun curbs do work, even if not absolutely; streets safer

Gun curbs do work, even if not absolutely; streets safer

The government rapidly put in place anti-firearm measures, and the fact is that overall gun violence is calculated as...

26 March 2019 2:15 AM IST

Elon Musk (Photo: File)

In a war-torn world, science gives us hope, offers wonders

While the idea has remained intact, the development of the device itself has been gone in two ways, depending on the...

12 March 2019 2:35 AM IST

A disease becoming endemic is news because health in general is considered the norm.

What, really, is the news', and other media truths

Much has been written and recorded about newspapers in general and the environments they suffer/enjoy in different...

13 Feb 2019 2:01 AM IST

Anthony Bourdain

Bourdain's death shone a light on depression

The world is much the poorer without Anthony Bourdain.

3 July 2018 12:51 AM IST

In countries around the world, at 8:30 p.m., people were switching off their lights for Earth Hour. (Photo: AP)

End culture of disposables to save the planet

In the run-up to Earth Hour, a number of promotional campaigns and awareness-rising videos were doing the rounds.

27 March 2018 12:12 AM IST

The image shows the companys spacesuit in Elon Musks red Tesla sports car which was launched into space during the first test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket.

Are we all alone in the Universe, or are we not?

It presents the travails of human Arthur Dent, at whose house councilmen have arrived for a demolishment.

13 Feb 2018 12:16 AM IST

Deep in the Arctic Circle, in the land of permanent ice and snow, in the Svalbard archipelago on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, a long, narrow mass of concrete protrudes out of the lands-cape, its sides exuding frost like smoke. This is the Global Seed Vault, also known as the doomsday vault, run by the Norwegian government.

Doomsday vault a likely victim of excesses

Inside are almost a million packets of seeds, each one a variety of a vital food crop.

23 May 2017 6:12 AM IST