Imaging two brains in verbal interaction suggests that a successful conversation is all about reading another person’s mind.
09 August 2010Sometimes alienation can be addressed the usual way. Sometimes not. In this rather special case, maybe it’s time to begin all over again: by listening
06 August 2010The allegations against HS Phoolka, counsel for Delhi’s 1984 riot victims, are another attempt to suppress the truth.
29 July 2010It seems that the Pythagorean play of numbers, and hence music, is concealed within Plato’s Dialogues.
28 July 2010Using genetic modification, researchers have bred a mosquito that cannot transmit the disease.
22 July 2010Christopher Hitchens’ memoir, of life amidst Leftists and literary friends, dazzles only in part.
21 July 2010A new finding indicates the proton’s size is 4 per cent smaller than estimated, raising questions about current theories.
15 July 2010For those blowing the vuvuzela for Paul the Oracle, this book on popular maths should make you feel stupid.
14 July 2010The answer may lie in older females becoming more closely related to males around them.
07 July 2010fMRI techniques can predict your response better than what you express.
01 July 2010Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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