DIGITALIZING A 1000 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES…

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

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ARTICLES DIGITALIZED IN TWO STACKS

ISSUES 001 TO 500

181 | Flipping it right:

From Shrove Tuesday to the secret of tossing the perfect pancake It's sad that no Indian scientist has figured out…

180 / Diamonds Are for Bond

Back in 1971, the latest James Bond movie title 'Diamonds Are Forever' wouldn't have occurred to anyone as notably significant.…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

ISSUES 501 ONWARDS

924 / A shift from thinking to feeling?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have covered most of the skills and qualities that the present youth devotedly regards as keys…

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…

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…

914 / It is 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…

913 / One metal in two ages

Iron replaced bronze as the prime material for tool and weapon production during the transition from the Bronze Age to…

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…

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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 is not like a finished product that has already started serving its purpose. It takes place as you watch it. It's rather a real-time sneak preview of a project that we are currently working on -- slowly, often unsteadily, due…

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SECTION4 MAKE IT A BIT LONGER

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 suscipit et dolorem rerum qui. Sed delectus distinctio quibusdam velit tempore vel.Autem maiores possimus modi. Maiores molestias sit aut laudantium odio corrupti. In facilis earum earum quaerat qui nulla commodi. Aliquam quos non vitae tempore et ea sunt. Quis et…

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 who started is furst? Yes, displaying "Hello, World!" is a common tradition in many programming languages. It's often the first program that beginners write when learning a new language. This tradition helps new programmers understand the basic syntax and structure…

ARE THERE REALLY A THOUSAND PAPERS?

"A question that could have occurred to you" means a question that would be natural or relevant to ask based on the current situation or information being discussed, essentially something you might genuinely wonder about given the context.

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, interactive, and relevant to current times, encouraging engagement and participation rather than just passive observation.

Requiem for an editor

 
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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Where there is hunger, there can't be lasting peace. Who said this in a UN General Assembly speech?

WILLY BRANDT

Which novelist keenly described symptoms of several diseases even before they were medically identified? one two three four

CHARLES DICKENS

Who has a long history of wearing daring dresses on Holywood's red carpet?

Nicole Kidman

Who won in the first ever arm wrestling contest between robots and humans?

Panna Felsen