Arts & Culture
The metaverse is a version of the internet where one can virtually habit as a simulated version of themselves. As an avatar, you can interact with real people and…
Arts & Culture
NASA states its plan to retire the Internation Space Station, as per a recently released report. The space agency will “deorbit” the ISS space station in the year 2031. At…
Arts & Culture
Carried out by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, a robot performed soft-tissue surgery on four pigs. The uses of robotics in surgery has been hypothesized for many years. The…
Arts & Culture
Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize recreational cannabis. The move allows citizens to grow cannabis at home for personal use only after informing their local governing…
Arts & Culture
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) reported that a team mapping radio waves in the universe have discovered something unusual. Astronomers recorded radio signals beaming out of…
Humanity
American short story author Carmen Maria Machado’s collection of short stories, ‘Her Body and Other Parties’, commences with the thought-provoking tale titled ‘The Husband Stitch’. In the story, the…
Arts & Culture
Conversion therapy is the practice of attempting to change an individual’s sexual orientation. It is an age-old practice that has frequently proven ineffective as studies have developed. On January…
Arts & Culture
The artists have withdrawn from the platform following protests over anti-vax content. Canadian pop and folk artist, Joni Mitchell, has withdrawn her music from Swedish audio streaming and media…
Arts & Culture
India’s rich history and culture teem with folk art available in multiple forms such as art, music, dance. Each of the 29 states celebrates their folk art in the…
Arts & Culture
It goes by many names – jimmy hat, love glove, French letter, nightcap, and oh so much more! But the moniker familiar to the majority is ‘Condoms’ – a…
Humanity
We take a look at the earliest surviving literature – a world folk-epic with Sumerian poems from ancient Mesopotamia translated from oral tradition to cuneiform tablets. Historically, world folk-epics…
Arts & Culture
Russia has gifted many folk arts to the world, most notably the Matryoshka doll or the Russian doll. Amongst its other assortments, the next in line would undoubtedly be…