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A Hardy Boys Take on Bioplastics…
Among true aficionados and avid collectors of the book series, the first 58 stories of the Hardy Boys series are considered ‘The Canon’.
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Congress Meets the Rideau Canal?
At 8:00 on December 31, the 7.8km long Rideau Canal Skate way officially opened to members of the Canadian public, annually resurrecting the world’s…
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The Jungle of Bureaucracy…
If you have been on the internet this week, there is a good chance you haven’t missed the winner of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards: a young gorilla…
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A Narwhal-ian Cue for the India-China Bilateral Relationship?
Each summer, Greenland’s Inglefield Bredning Fjord (IBF) sees a faithful visitor: the monodon monoceros (or the narwhal as it is known to its friends).
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Hobson’s Choice Offered by the Indian Judiciary?
While renowned for his influential prose and poetry on issues across politics and religion famed 17th century writer (and briefly a public servant in…
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A Miura-ori Solution May Be the Need of the Hour…
The 1970-conceptualised Miura-ori is widely known as one of the most popular origami folds.
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Buraanbur Meets China's Security Apparatus...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, dear reader, that the traditional Somali wedding may be incomplete without the buraanbur.
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Careful Cultivation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba
If one were to select a series of alliterative words that accurately represents the craft of bonsai, it may be “care, contemplation and consistency”, as…
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Inside Man and the Path America May Have Set on…
In 2006, noted American filmmaker, Spike Lee, directed his highest grossing film to date: the crime-thriller, Inside Man.
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A Bat Hiding Amidst India’s Grand Strategy?
Amidst the over 35,000 books that can be found lining the shelves of the Joanina Library in Portugal’s University of Coimbra, you may also find…
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State of Upheaval: A Look at Nepal and the DRC...
Congolese artist, Edizon Musavuli, has taken to different mediums to express his artistic point of view, but a comic was a first for him.
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A R&D and GST Reform Equinox...
In many countries in the Northern Hemisphere, mid-September marks the start of one of two equinoxes in the year.
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India’s Geopolitical Strategy (Set to the Sound of the Oud)
When you hear the first resonant strum of the instrument, its medieval roots are almost intuitively identifiable.
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Dutch Friendship Blossoms Amidst Supply Chains…
If one were to consider what the cities of Srinagar, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Ottawa hold in common, I’d venture that the following word may not have…
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