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Culture may be the great leveller

Studies point out that women of different families within the same group or even of different groups forge stable ties among them.

The early phase of internet in the 1990s-early 2000 was not highly commercialised. (Representational image)

Info turns into power, absolutely

There are scenarios where the so-called fringe groups can become mainstream and can even come to power. It is what networks do...

30 Jul 2018 2:09 AM

The Conversation article on information warfare being more dangerous than cyber warfare refers to the kind of danger that presents in terms of a takeover, a kind of invasion of the mind and the cognitive terrain.

Toxic information warfare on net defies solutions

People with similar views come together and it becomes a vicious cycle of the same news circulating within the same group.

30 Jul 2018 2:04 AM

ut the West has often failed to recognise this phenomenon because it reckoned everyone was similar. (Photo: Pixabay)

India remains status conscious

We have the google generation. But everyone does not become addicted to google.

23 Jul 2018 3:07 AM

New evidence says that every generation has many more differences within its individuals than between generations, understanding of which would resolve issues

Adaptation key to survival

Generations may have distinct characteristics lending themselves to stereotype labels as baby busters, baby boomers or millennials.

23 Jul 2018 3:01 AM

Platforms like Facebook have begun to adopt policies against spreading of fake news.

Time fake news is nipped in the bud

With digitisation developing at breakneck speed it has become imperative to talk about stopping the spread of fake news.

16 Jul 2018 6:50 AM

A year-and-half down the line, Zuckerberg was sitting in front of attorneys being probed, as the world watched his confessions.

Fake news cannot be unseen

As it brings more people online, a phrase that is heard most often since the onset of 2018 is ‘Fake news’.

16 Jul 2018 6:47 AM

American stereotypes of masculinity demand boys and men to be strong, aggressive, unemotional and anti-female. In spite of marches and campus violence protests, campuses are dangerous places for cis and trans women.

Survey trashes India, US on women

India has been branded the most dangerous country for women and the USA third.

09 Jul 2018 1:53 AM

Mr Blum and his organisation’s incomplete and misleading data analysis paint a dangerously inaccurate picture of Harvard College’s whole-person admissions process by omitting critical data and information factors.

What Harvard says

As they know, this work was explicitly understood to be preliminary and incomplete, and it was done with limited admissions data.

04 Jul 2018 2:30 AM

Many states in India follow the reservations policy as part of affirmative action and social engineering. So for us to argue against racial balancing in the U.S. is far-fetched.

Race neutrality helps students grow

It is in a nation’s best interests to properly develop the minds of its brightest and best so they may be able to tackle the problems of the future.

04 Jul 2018 2:27 AM

The superior Ivy League colleges have committed discrimination against AsAm students.

Attempt to limit Asian Americans in universities

Today, the average percentage of Jewish students is 25 per cent on Ivy League campuses, with a 6-million population.

04 Jul 2018 2:14 AM

Trump has been a target himself: On the cover of its April 2 issue, New York magazine depicted the President as a pig.

Speech that wreaks havoc

History is replete with instances of the havoc played by dehumanising language.

27 Jun 2018 2:38 AM

Due to Modi floods, all cats, dogs, snakes and mongoose are getting together to contest polls: Amit Shah on Opposition

Time for rhetoric of justice

The language became threatening as a witch-hunt.

27 Jun 2018 2:35 AM

Experts believe the system will be able to handle posts containing hate speech, racism and sexism.

AI learns to ditch swear words

The new sentence was then translated back to see how closely it resembled the original.

27 Jun 2018 2:33 AM

The new voting equipment was largely touch screen computers that are still very inferior to the EVMs India uses.

Onus on EC to ensure EVM credibility: EVMs too need a physical record

Many people are quite surprised when it turns out that computer scientists and security experts are among those most critical of EVMs.

18 Jun 2018 1:57 AM

EVMs make the election process transparent. Counting is more efficient and the results can be declared in 3-4 hours instead of the traditional 30-40 hours taken to count votes manually.

Onus on EC to ensure EVM credibility: Glitches apart, EVMs are necessary

The issue of ‘tamperability’ of EVMs has been doing the rounds ever since they were introduced.

18 Jun 2018 1:53 AM

Dams across river valleys and canyons also form part of rainwater harvesting by human intervention.

Europe can demolish at will

Dams, natural or manmade, across drainage systems, vary depending upon the order of stream in a hydrologic sense.

11 Jun 2018 6:01 AM

Dams serve multiple purposes in managing the regimes of rivers and also water security for large parts of the basin.

No swadeshi takers for the clamour

This write-up presents a view from a tropical developing country point of view.

11 Jun 2018 5:54 AM

Data predict that it will take more than 200 years before there are equal numbers of men and women working in senior roles in physics, given current trends.

STEM the gender gap

Despite recent progress, the gender gap appears likely to persist for generations, particularly in computer science, physics, and maths.

06 Jun 2018 1:21 AM

The eco-labelling programme there has been pushed by government procurement. In India, too, the Government is the largest consumer of goods and services so if Government decides to buy only eco-labelled products it would be an impetus to eco-labelling in India.

Eco logos yet to take root

Recently we did a report on the fast-food industry and looked at their policy on antibiotics in developed countries and India.

27 May 2018 2:58 AM

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