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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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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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: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes