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Explained: Why a Nike advertisement in Japan has generated backlash The two-minute video, titled ‘The Future Isn’t Waiting’, is Nike's latest attempt to expand its marketing strategy to focus on socio-political issues. Updated: December 16, 2020 10:30:04 am Across social media platforms, the advertisement has racked up millions of views, featuring the hashtag #YouCantStopUs. (Photo: YouTube/Screengrab) In the last week of November, Nike Japan released a video highlighting the issues of racism and bullying in the country. This set off a firestorm, wit...

Explained: What is the San Isidro Movement, posing a stiff challenge to Cuba’s authoritarian regime? The Movimiento San Isidro started two years ago to protest state censorship of artistic works, and has now become a platform for Cuban dissidents both within and outside the Caribbean nation. Written by Om Marathe , Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 18, 2020 2:43:35 pm Supporters of the San Isidro Movement outside the Cuban embassy in Washington DC earlier in December. (Photo: Twitter/@Mov_sanisidro) In Cuba, a c...

Explained: In weird planet 336 light-years away, clues about our own Planet Nine Like the presumed Planet Nine in our Solar System, newly described exoplanet orbits its star from a great distance, at an extreme tilt, and influences the behaviour of various objects in its system. What have scientists learnt about its formation and behaviour, and how does it mirror Planet Nine? Written by Kabir Firaque , Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 21, 2020 3:05:17 pm Artist’s impression of the exoplanet HD106906 b. Credit: ESA/Hubble A ...

The Experts Lt Gen Girish Kumar is the Surveyor General of India, and Nitin Joshi is Deputy Surveyor General, Survey of India. The responsibility of the Survey of India is to prepare authoritative maps, and its work involves carrying out extensive land surveys and mapping topographical features. Starting in 1952, the Survey of India undertook an exercise to measure the height of Mount Everest (then known as Peak XV). That exercise measures the height at 8,848 m (29,028 feet), which remained the globally accepted standard, until now. Can it be that simple for measuring a mountain? The princip...

Quixplained: Who was Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh? How was he assassinated? Iran’s government-backed Mehr news agency last week reported that a satellite-controlled machine gun was used to assassinate Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Updated: December 14, 2020 10:32:37 am Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in a targeted attack in November. Iran’s senior-most nuclear scientist was assassinated near Tehran on November 27. There have been varying reports of how Fakhrizadeh was killed. Early reports had suggested that he was killed in the midst of a gunfigh...