Born November 29, 1899, she is the world’s oldest living person and the secret to her age appears to lie in eschewing usual medical wisdom. An alert and chatty Italian woman, Emma Morano, on Tuesday celebrates her 117th birthday as the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century. Born November 29, 1899, she is the world’s oldest living person and the secret to her longevity appears […]
Established more than 1,500 years ago and home to some 3,000 monks, the Shaolin Monastery lies nestled in the misty, mountainous jungles of central China. One of China’s most important pilgrimage destinations, this world famous monastery is renowned for its age-old tradition of practicing both Zen Buddhism and martial arts. The Shaolin Temple – a picturesque compound of prayer halls, tree-dabbled courtyards, and Buddhist shrines set against a lush mountainside […]
Several thousand people along the coast evacuated or were told to evacuate. A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a tsunami that hit the same region devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011. The earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo, had a magnitude of 7.4, the Japan Meteorological Service said, and was centered off the […]
A single drop of milk. A newborn baby. The ravages of war and terrorism. The defiance of those who protest and the fear of those entrapped. All are included in a multimedia project featuring Time magazine’s most influential images of all time, released Thursday through a new book, videos and a website. Many of the photos or frames from films are familiar, engrained in the collective conscious, including the Pulitzer […]
Your happiness is mostly shaped by your decisions. Changing the way you feel requires you to make tough decisions that you haven’t made before. We all want to do this but fear get’s in the way and stops us from taking action. Being comfortable and making decisions that are easy will get you absolutely nowhere. Your happiness is important, and you should spend time finding ways to live life on […]
The first theatrical trailer for Kong: Skull Island, the King Kong reboot from Warner Bros, was released online on Thursday. The first thing that stands out in this trailer is that this Kong movie is in fact a period film, probably set around the Vietnam war. There’s also vintage tech on display, an Apocalypse Now vibe, and some of those iconic helicopters from that era. What this also means is […]
Since PM Modi’s demonetisation drive hit us last week, we have been nudged into taking up the cashless lifestyle. From filling up Ola money and PayTM accounts, to paying rents via internet banking, we are going the extra mile digitally to compensate for the lack of cash in our pockets. But here’s the thing. There are a few countries out there where going cashless is the way of life. So […]
For all those of you who enjoyed the artificial intelligence angle in HBO’s new offering Westworld, be prepared to be blown away. The new trailer of Ghost in the Shell, featuring Scarlett Johansson, is about the future of artificial intelligence. Based on a manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow, the plot follows a covert ops unit for Hanka Robotics entitled Section 9 in futurist Japan. The unit specializes […]
India’s dramatic move to scrap 500 ($7.6) and 1,000 rupee notes is poor economics, a leading economist says. Kaushik Basu, the former chief economist for the World Bank, says the “collateral damage” is likely to outstrip its benefits. The overnight ban on the notes last week was intended to crack down on corruption and so-called “black money” or illegal cash holdings. But it sparked scenes of chaos outside banks and […]
The first teaser trailer for the big budget adaptation of the French cult sci-fi graphic novel series Valerian is here. Slated for a July 2017 release, Luc Besson’s latest directorial outing, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, promises a visual spectacle. The story focuses on time-traveling government agents Valerian and Laureline (played by Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, respectively) attempting to bring peace to a fractured galaxy and […]
