"Jana Gana Mana" is the national anthem of India, originally composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
Pictured: An English translation of Jana Gana Mana by Tagore
Presenting our Folkindica Biodiversity map of the Indian Sundarbans.🐅
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First posed by Kobon Fujimura in 1970, the Kobon triangle problem is an unsolved question that asks for the maximum number of non-overlapping triangles that can be formed from an arrangement of k straight lines.
This is the configuration for k = 31 lines - 299 triangles.
There is no red in this picture.
Your brain is filling in the red color. The picture is made entirely of light blue, black, and white.
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In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion
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Called with different names (Focus Reading, Bionic Reading), the theory behind using bolded letters to read quicker is that the typographical change works because your brain reads faster than your eyes.
Or, your memory only needs the first few letters to fill in the gaps.
Since 1900, humans have cleared 1.1 billion hectares of forest.
This is a comparisono between the pre-industrial forests and the current ones.
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Suiseki (水石) are small naturally occurring or shaped rocks which are appreciated for their aesthetic or decorative value.
It's also the name of the art of arranging them into meaningful forms.
[📸 Szilajka Erzsébet]
“Banu Mushtaq, whose short stories I have been translating recently, and whose ‘Red Lungi’ appears in the Summer 2024 issue of The Paris Review, employs ‘anthe’ generously.”
Deepa Bhasthi on translating Kannada. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/07/2…
How the world has evolved over the last century in terms of:
- Child mortality
- Life expectancy
- GDP
- Women's education
- Basic water source
- Basic sanitation
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The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents. That’s one bookshop per 77 people.
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