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'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds': who was atom bomb pioneer Robert Oppenheimer?

Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century’s most famous physicist.

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2023

Woman goes viral for cooking ‘perpetual stew’ for 40 days straight

Rauwerda said ‘it depends on the day’ whether the stew is good

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023

Balcony falls: holiday companies are right to take a zero-tolerance attitude to risky behaviour

The Man Who Pays His Way: The hazardous phenomenon of ‘balconing’ even has its own Wikipedia entry

The Independent UK · Jul 16, 2023

Christ University Kannada Sangha: nurturing young writers, carrying forward a literary legacy

Cultural institutions play a crucial role in fostering the language and literature of a land. They harness the aspirations of people and offer a platform to share ideas and art, especially among the young. One institution which has done this relentlessly for the past 50 years is the Christ University…

The Hindu · Jul 4, 2023

Not just a youth movement: history too often forgets older protesters

Recent sustained anti-coal action by Blockade Australia in the Hunter Valley has brought public protest back into the news cycle. Activists have occupied trains, railway lines and machinery in an attempt to obstruct coal production and broadcast their message about the climate crisis.

The Conversation · Jul 3, 2023

Chatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled web

Big tech now has even more to answer for. But salvation could come from an unlikely source

The Guardian - UK · Jul 1, 2023

Data | Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads with 1.5 lakh Wikipedia articles

Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil dominates with over 1.5 lakh articles

The Hindu · Jun 23, 2023

Disaster, opulence, and the merciless ocean: why the Titanic disaster continues to enthral

The question on many minds this week is why did some of the world’s richest men risk death to venture to the bottom of the sea in a cold and cramped “experimental” submersible for a chance to glimpse the wreck of the Titanic?

The Conversation · Jun 22, 2023

Online safety bill: changes urged to allow access to social media data

Campaigners say bill in ‘serious peril’ of passing without powers to make platforms more transparent

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2023

Glory to Hong Kong starts to disappear from online platforms

Territory’s government took court action this month to ban the song, arguing that it breaches the national security law.

Al Jazeera · Jun 15, 2023