Throughout history, many medicines originated from traditional knowledge. Aspirin traces its origins to willow bark. Artemisinin emerged from traditional Chinese medicine.
What is being lost is not information. It is the capacity to do anything with information that requires a sustained, reflective, and internally coherent self.
Pawan Kumar Chandana was in conversation with ThePrint EiC Shekhar Gupta and Senior Assistant Editor Soumya Pillai at ThePrintOTC at The Quorum, Hyderabad.
We surrendered our attention to the feed. We surrendered our memory to the search engine. We surrendered our solitude to the notification. Why remember what can be retrieved?
When Karazin University in Kharkiv fell silent in the spring of 2022, what was lost was not a database. It was a living epistemic community—something more intangible that takes centuries to build.
In the study, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers found that parrots can use names to identify specific people like their owners and may also repeat their own names to draw attention.
Data on FDI rise has become a political flashpoint, with Naidu govt projecting an investor-friendly turnaround while YSRCP leader says ‘unwarranted information’ provided in House.
In February this year, ThePrint reported that India is exploring the possibility of teaming up with France for co-development and co-manufacturing of the futuristic FCAS.
It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.
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