Everyone says outdoors is safer. Here’s why. — While cases of Covid-19 surge to new highs nationwide, responsible outdoor activities are being encouraged. From California to New York, states and cities are shutting down indoor dining (or keeping it closed) while allowing outdoor service and keeping beaches and parks open, too. …

What Americans Don’t Understand About Freedom — That Europeans and Canadians Do Image Credit: Lindsey Wasson By now, you might have heard North Dakota is the world’s worst Covid hotspot. The world’s worst, with South Dakota not far behind. Things aren’t just desperate there — they’re bizarre, at least to the rest of the world. Nurses talk about patients in the Covid…

Image Source: Canva When talking about Python’s popularity in both the programming and Data Science community, the first thing that arrives in mind is its integrity. One of the best specialties of Python is its inherent integrity and readability that makes it a beginner-friendly language. As every language has its…

Evelyn Waugh would have a field day with what’s happening in Ethiopia right now. The talented author of Brideshead Revisited and Scoop was a racist little creep sent out by a rightwing, pro-Fascist newspaper in 1935 to cover Mussolini’s invasion. …

Please send your message again after [this date].Stoicism, a philosophical outlook that developed around 300 BC, slowly grew to become the dominant philosophy of the ancient “Western” world. By 161 AD none other than Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire was a practising Stoic.Smart Move: Re-establish the relationship…

One young black woman has a reasonable claim to have made one of the greatest contributions to modern medicine — without ever knowing she had. Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951 at the age of just 31, shortly after giving birth to her fifth child. At the…

A year will soon have passed since Finland’s new coalition government headed by five women started work. It has dealt efficiently with the coronavirus pandemic, while drafting an ambitious Equality Programme — a programme that states, among other things, that everyone has the right to determine their own gender identity. …

Misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine and pandemic conspiracy theories continue to thrive on social media. Here’s what we’ve been fact-checking this week. Justin Trudeau and the ‘Great Reset’ We start with the revival of the baseless conspiracy theory, known as the ‘Great Reset’, which claims a group of world leaders orchestrated…

A Chinese scientist helped not one but two superpowers reach the moon, writes Kavita Puri, but his story is remembered in only one of them. In Shanghai there is an entire museum containing 70,000 artefacts dedicated to one man, “the people’s scientist” Qian Xuesen. Qian is the father of China’s…