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Deep-sea fish break the mold with novel visual system
Sciencecyprus-mail3d ago

Deep-sea fish break the mold with novel visual system

For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates – people included – is built from two clearly defined cell types: rods for processing dim light and cones for bright light and color. New research involving deep-sea fish shows this tidy division is, in reality, not so tidy. Scientists have identified […]

Nick Suzuki and Mitch Marner score goals that saved Canada from an early Olympic exit
SportYahoo13d ago

Nick Suzuki and Mitch Marner score goals that saved Canada from an early Olympic exit

Jon Cooper told Canada's players at the second intermission of their quarterfinal matchup against Czechia not to stress if the big goal they needed to stay at the Olympics did not come in the first five minutes of the third period. “It could happen in the last five,” Cooper said. Canada trailed by a goal with under four minutes left Wednesday when Nick Suzuki scored on a textbook deflection goal to tie it.

Politicshindustan-times2d ago

Over 50% of NCERT Posts Vacant in India

More than half of the sanctioned positions at India's National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) are vacant, leading to prolonged reliance on contractual staff and impacting curriculum and textbook development.

The Cocoa Conundrum: Why Ghana’s farmers are poor despite making the world’s best chocolate
Businessmyjoyonline8d ago

The Cocoa Conundrum: Why Ghana’s farmers are poor despite making the world’s best chocolate

The State of Things Every so often, you come across an economic situation so perverse, so utterly divorced from basic market logic, that you have to wonder how it has survived for so long. The case of Ghana’s cocoa sector is a textbook example. Here we have a country that produces some of the world’s finest cocoa—the essential ingredient for a multi-billion dollar global chocolate industry.  Yet the smallholder farmers who are the bedrock of this industry remain trapped in extreme poverty, ma...

NCERT Textbook Row and SC Ban
Politicshindustan-times5d ago

NCERT Textbook Row and SC Ban

The Supreme Court has banned NCERT’s Class 8 Social Science book due to a chapter on 'judicial corruption' and issued contempt notices, sparking a controversy.

Facing meltdown? Over 75% of people suffer from burnout - here’s what you need to know
HealthThe Guardian17d ago

Facing meltdown? Over 75% of people suffer from burnout - here’s what you need to know

Does it only affect weak people? Is work always the cause? Burnout myths, busted by the experts Once, after surviving yet another round of redundancies in a former job, I did something very odd. I turned off the lights in my room and lay face-down on the bed, unable to move. Rather than feeling relief at having escaped the axe, I was exhausted and numb. I’m not the only one. Fatigue, apathy and hopelessness are all textbook signs of burnout, a bleak phenomenon that has come to define many of our working lives. In 2025, a report from Moodle found that 66% of US workers had experienced some kind of burnout, while a Mental Health UK survey found that one in three adults came under high levels of pressure or stress in the previous year. Despite the prevalence of burnout, plenty of misconceptions around it persist. “Everybody thinks it’s some sort of disease or medical condition,” says Christina Maslach, the psychology professor who was the first to study the syndrome in the 1970s. “But it’s actually a response to chronic job stressors – a stress response.” Here we separate the facts from the myths. Continue reading...