“We bought this Christmas tree for our teenager and her teen cousins so they would have something to do during the last hurricane. They loved putting it together, and we loved that they were doing something that wasn’t on a device!” — Colleen “I like Christmas, I’m single so this makes a good sight to see when I’m at my …
By Laura Newberry Today we’re talking about the pandemic and acknowledging — really acknowledging — loss. I wanted to really understand how these intangible losses affect us, so I sought out teachers and practitioners who’ve made the study of loss their life’s work. “It’s why so many more people right now are anxious, depressed, stressed out,” said Sherry Cormier, a …
Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata has introduced month-long adoption of animals to create public awareness about them, besides the earlier year-long duration. Zoo Director Asis Samanta on Tuesday said that adoption fees have been lowered, and authorities are encouraging people to adopt lesser-popular birds and animals, besides popular ones such as deer, tigers and chimpanzees. “We are encouraging people to …
Re-publishing or re-cycling one’s own academic work will amount to “self plagiarism”, the University Grants Commission has said, warning academicians and researchers against the practice. “Reproduction, in part or whole, of one’s own previously published work without adequate citation and proper acknowledgment and claiming the most recent work as new and original for any academic advantage amounts to ‘text-recycling’ also …
