DIGITALIZING A 1000 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES…

“As eye-boggling as it is mind-boggling.”
— STELLA DENVER

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This is all about us

all along a continuum of global cohesion

Call us Team ZC. We have members from India (where our project took off), China and Pakistan. And, extending to "the farthest geographical point on the Earth's surface from India", TEAM ZC even has a member from Chile — 7,500 kilometers or 10,900 miles away. This is just a tangential indication of how truly global we are, thanks to our lively presence and interactions on ResearchGate (RG), a social networking site with over 20 million researchers. The first person to sign up at our former site covid19on.com was a Karachi-based researcher from RG. The pandemic united us as it disregarded all national boundaries. Covid19on.com was launched in December 2019 — months before governments worldwide began announcing lock-downs one after another. Back then, most of TEAM ZC members were part of TEAM 19. These two teams can be viewed along a continuum of global cohesion or synergic cohesion, as we are engaged in a project to curate hundreds of print media articles. The section 'Notes From The Backend" would brief you on how we go about it.

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WHAT YOU WON'T SEE IN CONTENTS

NOTES FROM THE BACK-END: GOING ABOUT IT

WHAT YOU SEE IS A SNEAK PREVIEW

We wanted the cover image (top) to convey a lot, including a Team ZC member's exclamation, and that's all there in a rectangle. What its says is that the site…

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We start learning C programming language by making the computer display "hello". What are the other programming languages that begin with displaying "hello". Is that... Perspiciatis est et autem. Blanditiis…

HELLO WORLD, SAY “HELLO” TO DOLLY

We start learning C programming language by making the computer display "hello". What are the other programming languages that begin with displaying "hello". Is that a coding tradition? If so…

NOTE ON QUIZ SESSION WILL BE HERE

'Zebra Crossing' started jubilantly in a top newspaper as a Sunday quiz column sponsored by Discovery Channel. Those contests are over, and some regular winners in them have passed away.…

This site should not be a museum

As per AI Overview, the title of this note Signifies one's wish that something should not be treated as a static, purely historical display, but rather should be more dynamic,…

ARTICLES DIGITALIZED IN TWO STACKS

ARTICLES #001 TO #500

181 / Flipping it right

It's sad that no scientist has figured out the physics of tossing `parotta' (an Indian flatbread) into the air. The secret of such a fascinating vertical flying saucer effect should not remain…

180 / Diamonds Are for Bond

Back in 1971, the James Bond movie title 'Diamonds Are Forever' wouldn't have occurred to anyone as notably significant. The well-known phrase just looked proper for a film in which Agent 007…

179 / The ultimate evolutionary innovation?

It was Eors Szathmary who likened language to an amoeba, and the human brain to the habitat in which it can thrive. The Hungarian scientist’s explanation for his choice of simile is…

178 / Comic strips aren’t ‘Hokum’

The theme of radiation is at the core of the comic strip dynamics. Marvel comics' Incredible Hulk, a green-skinned monster, was born when a scientist accidentally irradiated himself while handling his own…

177 / Are ‘couch potatoes’ born in the womb?

Pregnant women may take heed. Poor diet during the pregnancy may program their babies to become couch potatoes even before they are born. And once triggered in the womb, the 'slack snacker'…

176 / A baby’s body in a 30G collision

Imagine a young mother inside a fast car, holding a baby on her lap. The baby actually weighs 10 kg, but all of a sudden there is a jerk and the mother…

ARTICLES #501 ONWARDS

924 / AI: The genie is out of the bottle

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have covered most of the skills and qualities that the present youth devotedly regards as keys to success in the future. The first wave of AI replaced humans…

962 / With a tunnel in the Head

Sounds reach one of our ears first and then the other. The time delay in between is too short for us to perceive but it is long enough for the brain to…

915 / Teeth tell stories that mouth can’t

A fossil tooth could be a buffet of information for researchers at a dig. Teeth grow like trees in a sense. They add layer after layer of enamel and dentine tissues every…

914 / Mona Lisa: It’s a Duchenne smile!

One bizarre remark on Mona Lisa's smile is that she doesn't smile at all; it's a visual illusion. And wasn't Leonardo da Vinci a master in optics? Turns out, half of the…

913 / One metal through two ages

Iron replaced bronze as the prime material for tool and weapon production during the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. The replacement was gradual -- at different times in…

912 / To see a place before it’s gone

Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is just one of those places that sightseers flock to -- "to see it before it's gone"! It is an example of the concept of 'Last Chance…

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NO BELIEF OR OPINION IS AN ISLAND

By STELLA DENVER

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has for centuries practiced the Booger Dance to ward off illnesses and other malevolent forces. As night descends, men selected as “boogers,” or evil entities, appear in tattered clothing and absurd masks made from gourds, wood, or hornets’ nests. They mimic outsiders (typically Euro-Americans) and exaggerate … The Eastern […]

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INTRODUCING BLOOD TO LIGHT

By LILLY CHERIYAN

Cancer causes tiny deposits of calcium in breasts. Specialists detect it as a shift in the wavelength of light as it passes through the body tissue. It was a jubilant moment in medical science when Dr Jeynes and his team realised that the computer codes developed to study the formation of stars and planets could […]

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ANOTHER TITLE IN UPPERCASE

By RITU CHATTERJI

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Requiem for an editor

This site is dedicated to the fond memory of June Maythil — a silent legacy that we cherish

She was not at all with TEAM ZC.
While we were fumbling with the initial coordination imperative of a site like this, she was braving sessions after foggy sessions of chemotherapy for advanced triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), with a frame of mind unfalteringly set to what she called “God Mode” — way far away from the neighbourhood of our preoccupation. But, unknown to us until now, she had already left an unproclaimed legacy behind her — way before we pitched in.

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