History

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The Invisible Organ Shaping Our Lives

Alessio Fasano and Susie Flaherty 02/01/2022

A story of 300 years of milestones in human...

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Why the IIT Kharagpur ‘Vedic Calendar’ Is Worse Than Ordinary Pseudoscience

Rahul Siddharthan 30/12/2021

The calendar seeks to right historical 'wrongs' for an...

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RSS Chief Uses Debunked Myths To Hold Up Dangerous Fantasy of a ‘Pure Race’

Tony Joseph 20/12/2021

There is unequivocal DNA evidence to refute the RSS...

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Podcast: An Ancient Ayurveda Manuscript Unearthed in China

Mary-Rose Abraham and Gayathri Vaidyanathan, Scrolls & Leaves 16/12/2021

A British soldier hunting for a killer in 1889...

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History Repeats Itself in the World’s Elitist Approach to the Environmental Crisis

Peter Sutoris 15/12/2021

Nehru's India suffered from the government’s elitism in trying...

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What Fibonacci, and Ancient Indian Scholars, Didn’t Know About the Golden Ratio

Sooraj 14/12/2021

Many indocentric claims about the Fibonacci series and the...

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From Surveillance to Entertainment: The Ancient History of ‘Intelligent’ Machines

E.R. Truitt 28/11/2021

Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems and sex...