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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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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Readers’ comments: Article on South Asia’s view of India is ‘horribly biased’
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
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Ramachandra Guha: How Narendra Modi has undermined the practice of science in India
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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
Video
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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Eco India, Episode 259: How future-proof innovations can revolutionize the way we protect nature