Ways Of Seeing
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Are you bad at recognising faces? It may have something to do with your personality
What enables face-recognition? Cognition, yes. But a new study suggests that it could also be linked to empathy, anxiety or introversion.
Karen Lander, The Conversation
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Even if companies use feminism as a marketing tool, it isn’t ‘capitalism’s handmaiden’
Tying up with big corporations, or elite allies, helps feminists shape gender-neutral business policies as well as raise money to help women across the globe.
Lauren McCarthy and Kate Grosser, The Conversation
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My sudden synaesthesia: How I went blind and started hearing colours
One woman lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled – hearing and touch changed the way she saw.
Vanessa Potter, Mosaic
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Listening to 41 Modi interviews: Few tough questions, no rebuttals, no fact checks
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Varanasi poll: As 33 nominations are rejected, eight applicants allege that the process was rigged
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What a regal South Indian ornament in a famous Rossetti painting tells us about the British Raj
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May global fiction: Six hot-off-the-press books to take you on a world literary tour
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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Do blind people hear better than others? Watch this feisty man bust some common myths
Tommy Edison tackles all kinds of strange questions with colourful examples.
Scroll Staff
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Seeing the unseen: the stories that comics help us recognise
Through the use of panels, comics offer windows into alternate worlds that the reader must digest individually, and as a whole.
Golnar Nabizadeh, The Conversation
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Three simple steps to understand art: look, see, think
Here’s an important tip – you don’t have to look at (or like) everything in an art gallery.
Kit Messham-Muir, The Conversation
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Eco India: Even as technology lends a hand, India's farmers grapple with an uncertain future
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Eco India, Episode 260: Can technology's societal benefits extend to environmental sustainability?
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Video: How free and fair are Indian elections today?
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Watch: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan walks the Cannes red carpet with an injured arm
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Watch: Meet Figaro, the curious cat who loves to ‘help’ her human making pottery