Curating and Digitalizing a 1000 Print Media Articles.
This is a real-time sneak preview of a standstill project set in motion again
This isn’t like a finished product that has started serving its purpose.
The source material we try to curate is ‘Zebra Crossing’ — a Sunday column carried by The Indian Express for twenty years (2000-2020).
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—nearly 17,000 kilometers or 10,500 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 column Zebra Crossing was concieved as a shortcut across the information highway — at a time when dial-up was the only internet option, even for privileged users in first-tier firms. Right now, a host of ResearchGate (RG) scholars contend that the column holds an encyclopedic scope — a finding substantiated by AI briefs.
This site goes on happening as you cross the highway.
THIS IS WHERE WE CONNECT WITH RESEARCHERS WORLDWIDE
TEAM ZC includes students, academicians, coders, designers and journalists.
“This project is as eye-boggling as it is mind-boggling.”
People can express emotions, such as happiness or sadness or anger, in two ways — through mere sounds (vocalisation) or through words (language). Does the brain respond to these two modes of emotional expressions with the same speed and equal…
The significance of certain objects is so deeply anchored in our psyche that we rely on them even when their intended function is out of context. A bike helmet suggests safety even when the wearer is just sitting on a…
A study of Nobel-winning economists by Bruce Weinberg and David Galenson identifies two different life cycles of creativity — a surge in the mid-20s or in the mid-50s, depending on distinct attributes of personality. The sudy has it that those…
Given that you are not a drummer, you can perform fine motor tasks only with one hand and you will struggle to play different rhythms with both hands simultaneously. Drummers, however, “can do things that are impossible for untrained people”….
If you look at an MRI scan of the brain, you will see a wave pass through the entire brain like a heartbeat once every few seconds! It’s an ultra-slow rhythm recognised decades ago, but no one did quite know…
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’ syndrome is likely to follow the offspring all…
A squeeze in the arm, a pat on the shoulder, or a slap in the face — touch is an important part of the social interaction between people. Nobody needs to drive the point home in the days of social…
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 Tourism’. The key words hovering over a site…
When a skater glides on ice, his/her body weight is applied downward on a small area on the surface of the ice. The pressure generated is strong enough to make the ice melt at the point of contact. The friction…
