Art & Culture
The “Art & Culture” category typically includes various topics related to visual arts, performing arts, literature, music, and cultural heritage. It covers a wide array of subjects such as art history, famous artists and their works, different art movements, the evolution of various art forms, cultural traditions, music genres, literature genres, and significant literary works.
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Why We Think Someone Else’s Success Means Our Failure: The Zero-Sum Bias
During the annual science fair at Mumbai’s Cathedral School, two best friends—seventeen-year-old Rohan and Aditya—both submitted exceptional projects. Rohan created…
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The “Zero” Trap: Why Our Brains Pick Small Wins Over Big Safety
As a journalist with over ten years of experience covering human behavior, I have sat across from CEOs, scientists, and…
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Why Your Daily Commute Feels Shorter Than a New Route of the Same Distance
Seventeen-year-old Priya had been commuting to her coaching classes in Delhi for six months using the same route every day—from…
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Does AI mean more uni students are plagiarising their work?
People using other peoples’ ideas, words and creations without acknowledgement is a widespread problem. Plagiarism occurs everywhere from restaurant menus…
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Why Adding ₹10 to ₹20 Feels Huge But Adding ₹10 to ₹1,000 Feels Tiny: The Weber-Fechner Law
Seventeen-year-old Rohan was shopping for a new phone case and a new laptop. At the electronics store, he found a…
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Why You Eat the Whole Bag of Chips Even When You’re Full: Understanding Unit Bias
During a psychology experiment at Delhi University, researchers invited students to a “movie evaluation study.” Each participant received free popcorn…
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Why School Committees Spend Hours Debating Cafeteria Menus But Rush Through Budget Decisions
The school management committee of Delhi’s Greenfield Academy was meeting to make three important decisions: approving a ₹50 lakh technology…
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Why Everyone Thinks Advertising Works on Others But Not on Them: The Third-Person Effect
During a media literacy class at Mumbai’s Cathedral School, the teacher showed seventeen-year-old Priya and her classmates a series of…
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Why Speeding From 80 to 100 km/h Barely Saves Time: The Time-Saving Bias
Eighteen-year-old Aditya had just gotten his motorcycle license and was riding to his friend’s house 60 kilometers away. Running late,…
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Why Studying Only Successful People Gives You the Wrong Lessons: Survivorship Bias
Seventeen-year-old Rohan was frustrated. He’d read ten biographies of successful entrepreneurs—Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg—and noticed they…
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Why Schools Chase Test Scores Instead of Real Learning: The Surrogation Trap
Green Valley High School in Delhi had a problem. For five years running, their Class 10 board exam scores had…
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Why Horoscopes Always Seem Accurate Even When They’re Not: Subjective Validation
During a psychology class at Mumbai’s St. Xavier’s School, the teacher gave each of the thirty students a sealed envelope…
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Why Breaking Down Big Risks Makes Them Seem Scarier: The Subadditivity Effect
Seventeen-year-old Aditya was planning his first international trip—a two-week tour of Europe with his school group. At the airport insurance…
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Why Assuming All Engineers Are Bad at Writing Is Wrong: Understanding Stereotyping
Priya was nervous as she waited for her job interview at a leading Mumbai marketing firm. She had a stellar…
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Why We Keep Using Old Passwords and Never Switch Banks: The Status Quo Trap
For fifty years, Delhi Public School had followed the same daily schedule: school started at 7:30 AM, with eight 40-minute…
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