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“… In Other News, ‘Never The Twain Shall Meet.’”
According to a study detailed in The New York Times, there's a rather Manichaean divide when it comes to how people around the world assess others' facial expressions, and wouldn't you know it, it falls on lines of ordinal direction! -
Heart-y, Healthy Cuisine
Award-winning restaurant and heart center team up to offer healthy food. -
Spreading The Prakash
Pawan Sinha turns neuroscience community on its head. -
Expectant South Asian Moms At Risk
South Asian women at risk for perinatal mortality. -
Sunita Moonwalks Her Way Into History Books
Desi American astronaut spends Sunday strolling in space. -
Working Toward Affordable Vaccines
Professor comes up with a way to make inexpensive vaccines for the world's developing communities. -
Sunita & Crew Give Martha Tour Of Expedition 14
Martha Stewart chatted with the crew of Expedition 14 Monday morning, including astronaut Sunita Williams. -
Girl Geeks Share Their Stories
She's Such a Geek anthology features contributions from women working in computer science, game design and scientific research. -
Happy Cranberry-Colored Holidays
Cranberry harvest. (British Columbia Cranberry Growers Association.) As a fruit indigenous to North America, the cranberry was around long before Thanksgiving. It’s a berry that adds color and flavor to some of the holiday’s traditional foods. And to some not-so-traditional foods. My mother has been known to stockpile bags of the berries in the freezer this [...] -
Blast Off! Sunita Williams Heads Back to Space
The space shuttle Discovery is getting ready for a December 7 launch on a mission to the international space station, and Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams will be on board. She’ll be in space for six months, replacing German astronaut Thomas Reiter as flight engineer. Back in October 2004, Nirali interviewed Sunita, and she had [...]