https://youtu.be/vmVLIDq9wok Scientists and astronomists gathered at Argentina’s Neuquen province to watch a total solar eclipse. The eclipse was visible from a 90km corridor spanning across the Andean mountain range in Argentina to Chile’s southern pacific coast. This is the second eclipse to be visible in South America in the last 18 months, though poor weather…
London, Hertfordshire, and Essex moving to tier-3 -England’s highest tier of coronavirus restrictions will come into place from Wednesday 00:01Hrs MPs have been told by Health secretary Matt Hancock. A new variant of coronavirus identified, and it may be associated with a faster spread in the south of England, Matt Hancock, UK Health Secretary. These tier-3…
The Great Conjunction: Jupiter and Saturn are moving from one zodiac sign to another simultaneously on December 21 the longest night of the year, which happens once in 800 years, and the last time such an event happened Henry IV was on the English Throne. For astrologers like Dawn Anne of Astrology answers, the next…
Ramachandra Guha’s The Commonwealth of Cricket subtitled “a lifelong love affair with the most subtle and sophisticated game known to mankind”. As a fan, scholar, controversialist, administrator, player, writer, Guha has spent a life with cricket, as he traces the game across every level at which it is played: school, college, club, state, and country.…
Hope rise of a last-minute saving Brexit deal amid a level playing field remains a sticking point. Boris Johnson, prime minister, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was “ responsible at this point to go the extra mile”. The two sides had said Sunday was the deadline for a decision on…
The Early period between 1917 and 1989, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottaman and Russian Empires yields an unstable political and economic order plagued by rival nationalism, Bolshevism and democracies that turn into dictatorships, unleashing the Second World War. In the latter period the US and the Soviet Union dominate one half of Europe…
Human cognitive diversity If you are on a plane, do you think about its aerodynamics, or when you look at a mountain do you think about how precisely it was formed or do you notice how the music you are listening to is structured, then you could be a hyper systemiser. People who think like…
The Pandemic has touched every aspect of life bringing death, disease, isolation, joblessness, fear, grief, and despair amid deepening social and economic unequalness. Globalisation is under pressure from nationalism, as countries have closed borders, hoarded PPE and bartered over vaccine. As geopolitical alliances are being reshaped, the US seems in disorder, China appears invigorated. The…
Zoologist and a vaccine pioneer Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, a Russian Jew who had trained in Odessa and developed his skills in Paris, in search of cholera at a time when the world of international bacteriology was factional and prone to suspicion. He created the world’s first vaccines for cholera and plague, but an accidental…
