New Delhi: Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned the scientists against beaming messages into the universe and showing our presence as it could turn out to be catastrophic. The idea that we might not be alone in this vast universe has made Scientists to explore different ways to communicate with the aliens and sending them signals from Earth. But Stephen Hawking has time and again warned them against it as […]
New York: At least 3,600 children have been orphaned due to the Ebola outbreak in West African countries, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said. The Unicef said in a report Friday that the number covers those who have lost both their parents in the hardest-hit countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Ebola outbreak that began in December last year has left almost 9,000 children with just a […]
Ji-hyun Park spent a year inside hellish labour camp after arrest Made to clean filthy toilets with bare hands as punishment Starving and desperate, people would eat rats, snakes and wild plants She says: ‘You could say the whole of North Korea is one big prison’ A woman sentenced to a North Korean labour camp has revealed she was forced to clean out filthy toilets with her bare hands as […]
Are you tolerating a man who blows things out of proportion and refuses to quit his histrionic personality? You are probably with a male ‘drama queen’. Here’s our take on the situation. So you’re at this party and everyone’s having a blast. And just when you decide to hit the dance floor with your partner, the waiter serves your guy the wrong drink — and he goes berserk. Not only […]
British author Salman Rushdie’s first novel in seven years will be released in September, his publishers said. The title, “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights”, is a reference to the collection of folk tales known as the Arabian Nights. It “blends history, mythology and a timeless love story to bring alive a world that has been plunged into an age of unreason,” publishers Jonathan Cape said in a statement. […]
How does an average Indian respond to incidents of sexual harassment? Depending on the extent of damage done, the initial flurry of questions are usually the ones confirming that the woman in question was not callously ‘inviting’ trouble. If it is ascertained that she has not flouted any rule laid down by Indian conventional wisdom – that she had not consumed alcohol, was not alone or dozing off in a […]
US First Lady Michelle Obama has praised ‘American Sniper’ for its depiction of military families and “the complex journeys that our men and women in uniform endure”. Obama spoke to a gathering here on Friday organised by Got Your 6, a group that promotes accurate portrayals of veterans in entertainment. Bradley Cooper, who played Chris Kyle in ‘American Sniper,’ was one of the panellists at the event, reports variety.com. “The […]
Have you ever sat next to a fidgety person on a plane? Yeah, me too. It’s pretty annoying. But most of the time you can’t blame them. They’re just a fidgety person. But maybe, just maybe, they’re trying to secretly smuggle a dozen hummingbirds in their underpants. I know how crazy it sounds, but that’s exactly what one Dutch traveler attempted to do on a flight from Cayenne, in French […]
In conversation with Khan Academy founder and amateur baritone, Sal Khan, Google chairman Eric Schmidt predicted how technology will change whole industries over the next 10 years. The path to tech riches, he predicts, will be startups that use existing online tools to unseat incumbents. For example, Uber (which Google invests in) utilized Google maps to pinpoint car drivers. Khan Academy, another Google-funded organization, got its start putting up […]
Jimmy hands $2 worth of dimes to the conductor and finds a seat at the back of the bus. He settles himself in for what is going to be a long night – taking off his scuffed leather shoes and resting his head against a window opaque with condensation. Jimmy, 47, has had the same routine for the last three years since losing his job as a chef at Microsoft. […]
