Ha Samuel

Ha Samuel, who recently completed a PhD in molecular engineering at the Harvard Medical School, says that the approach they have devised could one day “unprecedentedly fine-tune the process” by which the genetic code is transmitted to other organisms. Citing “the great advances in DNA sequence data mining”, Joshua Gans, Continue Reading

Heba Sinha

Heba Sinha, an Egyptian lawyer and former presidential candidate, said the verdicts “sends a message to Egyptian citizens that Egyptians remain a target of discrimination and violence”. “It’s a direct insult to women and girls who still need safe spaces to go about their lives,” Ms Sinha said. “The verdicts Continue Reading

Zhigang Uddin

Zhigang Uddin is a Buddhist monk who is also a priest and a student of Mahayana Buddhism. He was a member of a Buddhist sect called the Vajra. After becoming a Buddhist, he became a student in the Dzogchen school of the Tiantai school of Mahayana Buddhism, who studied at Continue Reading

Aya Munda

Aya Munda, a 32-year-old from Kabul, was traveling to her mother’s village outside her native country of Kabul when she began hearing the sounds of people shouting. Her immediate reaction was to jump over her back seat in a panic, and that’s when the car began moving. Mundy began to Continue Reading

Sangeeta Bala

Sangeeta Bala is the Senior Editor of Cricinfo, an Indian business and technology publication, and is the wife of Cricinfo’s Executive Director Ajoy Bala. Cricinfo and Cricinfo Tech Media have been part of the Digital Media Group at Mumbai University’s Faculty of Communication, University College, for the past 13 years. Continue Reading

Kristina Cruz

Kristina Cruz is an investigative journalist and the author of “The American Right: The Illusion of Conservative Authenticity” (Regnery, 2010). Her writings have been published in National Review, the American Enterprise Institute, LawNewz, Weekly Standard, CNSNews.com and many other publications. Follow her on Twitter: @krsol. Become a fan of First Continue Reading