A new city is being built on barren lands in India’s western state of Gujarat to give foreign investors easy access to its booming economy. Called Gujarat International Finance-Tec City, or GIFT City, it is planned to be on a par with global financial hubs. “Except for the fact that we are not sitting in Singapore and GIFT City is not Singapore, I think from a business perspective we have everything... 

When you live in a city, it’s easy to forget that we are surrounded by the greatest show in the Universe: The Universe itself. This sky comparison chart is the sad proof of that. Sadly, missing the awe-inspiring show of all those planets, stars, and galaxies dancing around us is the price humans had to pay for having observed it in the first place: When our prehistoric ancestors studied the...