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PHOTOGRAPH: JYOTHY KARAT So we use symbolism in stories, and explain what it means. Like, when a person has 10 heads, it means t ...
One day, a man approached the Pandavas while they were in exile in the forest. “I need your help, Yudhishthira!” he said, addres ...
“What is man’s worst enemy?” “Anger.” “What disease will never have a cure?” “Greed is incurable.” The yaksha smiled again. “A l ...
ISTOCK While we know our furry friends are brilliant companions, Dr John Bradshaw finds out if they could actually be making us ...
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D OGS: the universal stress-buster. That’s the claim increasingly made for ‘man’s best friend’ as dogs find their way into all k ...
A 20-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS MORE SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING YOUNG WOMEN’S PHONE NUMBERS IF HE HAD A DOG AT HIS SIDE unlikely to walk suff ...
GETTY X7, ISTOCK Paws for thought So, it appears that dogs build bridges between people and make their owners seem more trustwor ...
Dr John Bradshaw is an anthrozoologist based at the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. the UK. to read ...
ILLUSTRATION: ANDY POTTS | GENETICS SCIENCE 70 February 2017 ...
Recent research has revealed a handful of ‘superheroes’ walking among us, whose DNA gifts them with resistance against serious d ...
GETTY S UPERHEROES are everywhere right now. Righting wrongs, saving planets and generally punching each other senseless in film ...
and more. There are hundreds of healthy Dutch people going about their daily lives, defying the faulty genes within them. A simi ...
were resilient to a selection of eight genetic conditions. Three were resistant to cystic fibrosis, a serious disease affecting ...
We inherit two copies of every gene, one from mum, the other from dad, and they are not necessarily the same. Scientists have di ...
dealing with and managing these diseases to serve sort of as a National Guard, so, when we do find somebody who resilient to cys ...
Kat Arney is a London-based science writer and broadcaster. Her first book, Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Gene ...
| AMERICA’S FIRST SUPER-RICH HISTORY Rise of the Robber Barons Grasping monopolists or American heroes? Adam IP Smith tells the ...
ACCORDING TO THE TIMES, VANDERBILT RESEMBLED “THOSE GERMAN BARONS WHO, FROM THEIR EYRIES ALONG THE RHINE, SWOOPED DOWN AND WRUNG ...
| AMERICA’S FIRST SUPER-RICH HISTORY 80 Three titans of big business Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 – 1877 Wealth: At his death, Vand ...
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