The Economist18h
What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?
Matteo Bruno and his colleagues at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome calculated the walkability of more than ...
The World on MSN16h
Turkish artist captures pop culture through traditional miniature techniques
Murat Palta makes a splash in the Turkish art world by imagining how a 16th-century Ottoman miniaturist would depict the ...
A tiny satellite showed it can take high-res pics from space
Tokyo-based startup ArkEdge Space claims it has snapped what is “probably” the highest quality images of Earth taken by a ...
Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict
Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories and boundaries, others show different voting blocs in ...
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Indian travellers are craving offbeat escapes, but here's the irony
With overcrowding becoming a global issue, travellers—including Indians—are seeking offbeat destinations. But social media ...