Two Scripts, Two Different Logics – English and Devanagari
One script’s letter order is a documented map of the human mouth. The other’s order has lasted nearly four thousand years, and nobody is certain why it looks the way it does.
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Why Your Curry Tastes Different
Tomatoes were bred for size and shelf life. The sweetness went first.
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Why Love Ended Up in the Chest
The organ that gets all the credit is not the one doing the work. It has an excellent alibi.
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When Did the Stock Market Become a Person?
Why commentators talk about the Sensex as if it had moods — and why, thanks to a property that ant colonies and traffic jams share, they are less wrong than they sound.
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Visual Fatigue, Rebuilt.
Modern life is visually flatter and straighter than almost any environment the human eye evolved for. This piece separates what science has confirmed about that shift from one further idea — untested, and clearly marked as such — about why it might matter.
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Long Life, Short Death — or Long Decline?
The years a nation adds to life and the years it adds to good health are two different numbers — and lately the first has been pulling away from the second, fastest where medicine is most advanced.
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From Stone to Canvas: How Hindu Gods Got the Faces We Know Today
The gods are ancient. The specific face, palette, and pose most people picture is not. Here is how sculpture, regional art, and print technology built that image, piece by piece, over centuries.
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Before Asking Whether God Exists
One word — God — carries at least three different ideas. An answer about one of them may say nothing about the others.