Super Powers
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Superman at 80: How two high school friends concocted the original comic book hero
Pop culture, personal tragedy and heroic persistence all played a role.
Brad Ricca, The Conversation
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A new bill on public health emergencies allows for dubious restrictions of citizens’ liberties
The Public Health Bill allows government authorities to enter houses, examine and treat people during an emergency but does not mention patient consent.
Menaka Rao
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The mesmerising story of Annie De Montford, a 19th-century hypnotist and ‘psychological star’
The Mesmerist’s slide into oblivion seems strange.
Christopher Green
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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Thriller: A serial killer is on the loose, murdering India’s famous nuclear scientists one by one
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The Man, the Machine: Merab Dvalishvili in Mumbai
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Karnataka: BJP leader G Devaraje Gowda arrested in sexual assault case
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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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Watch: Can humans have superpowers? (No, but you can still be Batman)
'Without a cap, I don't see how it is going to work,' science educator Bill Nye tells the kid who asked.
Scroll Staff
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Female Thor knocks out anti-feminist villain – but this isn't the coup it seems
Marvel Comics’ response to the idea that the ‘damn feminists are ruining everything’ leaves something to be desired.
Nicola Streeten Plowman, The Conversation