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Nigeria's in vogue handwoven fabric makers resist automation

In Iseyin, a sleepy town in southwestern Nigeria, shaded spaces under trees, makeshift sheds and narrow alleys double as production hubs for aso-oke, a handwoven fabric indigenous to the Yoruba ethnic ...

Climbers Often Rig This Anchor Wrong. Here’s How to Avoid a Deadly Mistake.

I've witnessed many errors with ram's horns. Here's how to use the world's most misunderstood fixed anchor correctly.

Can food actually be medicine? These doctors say yes

BOSTON — Lauren Estess, a third-year student at Tufts University School of Medicine, believes knowing how to make chickpea ...

'Interstellar Was a Much Better Movie in Chris Nolan's Hands Than It Would Have Been in Mine' — Steven Spielberg Opens Up on Sci-Fi Classic He Walked Away From

Spielberg, currently doing the rounds promoting his upcoming sci-film Disclosure Day, told Empire (via GamesRadar ), that he ...

Grim fairytales: See how Dutch artist Afra Eisma’s work fights to reclaim joy

Vibrant colours and textures shaped her career. Then, amid a rape case five years ago, new shades seeped in. They mark the start of the end of silence, she says ...

‘The Protest Is Against Creative Cowardice’: Adi Shankar On Rewriting Hollywood Rules | Exclusive

There’s a certain kind of filmmaker who enters Hollywood through the front door, learns its language, and then spends a career speaking it fluently. And then there’s Adi Shankar, who seems far more ...

More than 500 lakes vanish in Jammu and Kashmir: What's happening?

Jammu and Kashmir lakes face alarming decline as a CAG audit reveals over 500 water bodies vanished or shrunk, exposing ...

47 Subtle And Interesting Displays Of Intelligence

It takes time to know a person. After all, first impressions only scratch the surface, and we are far more complex than five ...
Alternative Press

Birdlegs are your new favorite hardcore supergroup

Birdlegs bring together Jade Puget , Gary Gutfeld (Corduroy, the Hi-Fives), and Eric Ozenne (The Nerve Agents) — all of whom ...

'Michael Is Doing Great' — CNN Personally Apologises to Michael J. Fox and His Family After Article and Video Suggested the Back to the Future Star Had Died

CNN has apologized after accidentally publishing an article and video designed to "remember the life" of Back to the Future ...
Autocar

12,000 miles in a HR-V: the bad, the brilliant and the very noisy

I love how those new headlights seem to poke out from under the bonnet and the Hofmeister – like kink where the C-pillar meets the bodywork. Other visual curiosities include three dots hidden in the ...