Letter to a five-year-old girl
Mili Saha :Hi Girl,I cannot remember your birth or your first birthday, but I watch the day you are going to school, your first world to step out. So far, you have been a...
Life
The ultimate end of traffic jam
Francesca Baker :We’ve all been there. Stuck at traffic lights that never seem to change to green. Sitting in queues of cars that stretch on for miles or delayed by a glut of slow...
Negotiating for nature
Tharanga Yakupitiyage :Wildlife is being wiped out in an unprecedented rate, and it’s our fault. But a new deal could provide a new pathway forward.Concerned over the rate of biodiversity loss, the World Wide...
The air we need to breathe
Peter Weinelt :Vienna is the world’s top city regarding quality of life. The city’s sustainable development is one of the core goals of the Viennese government. Wiener Stadtwerke plays a key role in this...
Self-help : Choose the core values
Meg Selig :You’ve planned to have dinner with your friend on Friday night. On Friday morning, the guy you’ve been crushing on asks you out for the evening. Do you say yes and break...
Why students are terrified
Lee Jussim Ph.D :In November 2016 I led a first-year political science tutorial at the University of Toronto. Since we were discussing the social construction of identities, I thought I’d get the students to...
Women in agricultural sector
Md. Sazedul Islam :Agriculture is the lifeline of the economy of Bangladesh and the single largest sector contributing more than 16% to national GDP. According to Agriculture Information Service, about 1.10 crore women are...
Free eye camps in city, Raipur
Life Desk :Two free eye camps for the underprivileged people were held at New Castle International School premises in Jatrabari in the city and at Raipur Union Parishad Bhavan, Thakurgaon Sadaron Saturday. The eye...
The mind is flat
Nick Chater Ph.D. :We know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than...
Managing emotions for good health
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Feeling, fear, emotion are human instincts. All men are devien with such instincts. Feeling arises from brain and it transmits through the process of transformation, conduction and radiation. Feeling is...
Poverty elimination through women empowerment
Reza Mahmud :Widows have overcome adversaries with the small donation taken from a NGO in the Lalmonirhat district’s Aditmari upazila. Some of them built poultry and cows fattening farms with the donation changing their...
Why marriages fail
Harriet Lerner Ph.D. :With marriage having a fifty percent no-go rate it’s obvious that people don’t follow their best thinking, just like people don’t eat healthfully even when they know what’s good for them....