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.”
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 claim is true — literally! Neurologists Lucia Ricciardi…
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 that “a surprisingly large part of our brain…
Schreckstoff is a chemical cocktail that fish release from their skin after an injury. Fish perceive the risk of a predator nearby when they sense the chemical in water, and they display an alarm behaviour called a “startle” event. We…
Both astronauts and cancer patients have a decrease in muscle mass, bone demineralisation and changes in heart function. Astronauts may have trouble focusing or they get a little forgetful (space fog), and this experience is similar to what is called…
New research has it that evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. It echoes what Nobel laureate François Jacob famously declared in 1977: “Evolution does not produce novelties from scratch. It works with what already exists.” A team of scientists…
Many things we aren’t aware of can unconsciously influence our behavioural inclinations and orientations. “Pseudoneglect” is one of those things. Experimental evidence recognises it as a mild asymmetry in spatial attention. One result is leftward errors in line bisections. Even…
Both historical documents and genetic data agree upon that the eggplant, better known as brinjal in Indian kitchens and cookery books, was first domesticated somewhere in the region of China and India. Surprisingly, many wild relatives of the presently cultivated…
When Dr. Emily Carlson watched 73 people dance across eight genres of music, she didn’t realize she was standing on the cusp of a breakthrough. Her original idea was to use machine learning to identify the genre each dancer got…
The term ‘Anthropocene’ is intended to refer to a period in Earth’s history marked by overwhelmingly evident geological processes exclusively triggered by humans. Palaeobiologist Jan Zalasiewicz identified broiler chickens as a new form of animal that has the potential to…
