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Everyone with ordinary inherited blue eyes appears to share a common ancestor, probably someone who lived around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, when a tiny genetic switch near the OCA2 gene reduced brown pigment in the iris — meaning blue eyes, as we know them today, may trace back to one ancient mutation.
The smell of the ocean — that sharp, clean scent people travel thousands of kilometres to breathe — is not salt, which has no real smell, but partly dimethyl sulphide: a sulfur gas released when compounds made by microscopic marine algae are broken down by bacteria, death, and grazing in the sea.
There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle than in every river, lake, and surface reservoir on the planet combined, hidden in a mineral called ringwoodite hundreds of miles beneath your feet
Quote of the Day by motivational speaker Brian Tracy on discipline: ‘Your life only gets better when you get better’
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IITian unable to land job after graduation seeks advice on PhD versus industry career
Antarctica is the largest desert on the planet, because a desert is defined by how little water falls from the sky rather than by heat, and almost nothing falls on the frozen continent.
Liver Doc's 'send students abroad' advice amid CBSE's OSM row sparks 'What about middle class?' debate
How to tune a guitar… even if you haven’t got a tuner
Katharine Birbalsingh: Middle class parents shun my schools
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Quote of the Day by American psychologist Carol Dweck on growth mindset — ‘Talent is something you build on…’
How 30 minutes of recess could change how your child learns
‘Bhed Chaal’ vs reality: Unemployed IIT graduate at crossroads; asks Internet what is better — PhD or low-paying job?
Quote of the day by Aristotle: ‘Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom’
In the age of AI, India must raise ‘reimagineers’
Over 74,000 students to receive free school supplies this June
‘Tell me about yourself’: I asked ChatGPT to prepare me for a big job interview; AI gives me key questions and answers
The blue color of the sky is not a property of the air itself — air is colorless, and a glass of it would look exactly like a glass of nothing — and the blue you see overhead is sunlight being scattered by molecules of nitrogen and oxygen, which deflect short blue wavelengths much more strongly than long red ones, in the same physics that makes the Sun appear yellow and a sunset appear red
