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Before 1980, the bahubali or the musclemen were a slightly different breed: they sought the patronage of the local politician to run their criminal activities. This arrangement changed with Gorakhpur-based muscleman Hari Shanker Tiwari.
We are HUGE fans of Sherry Turkle around The Cryptosphere: her book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, which discusses the ways in which personal computers serve as personal portraits, as autobiography, belongs on every bookshelf. And, yes, every Kindle, too. We've been fans since we saw her as a grad student, opening…
Julian Assange, founder, editor, and publisher of WikiLeaks, has a book to sell: When Google Met Wikileaks, and unlike juicy leaks, hardcovers don't sell themselves. Consequently today he hit the interwebs and he hit them hard. First he did a Question and Answer session at Gawker which I will never live down missing entirely due to…
Imagine this: You're voting on a matter of national significance, you get to the front of the line, and the poll worker asks, "What state...
With scientists seeing an ever-stronger link between footballers heading the ball and dementia, the Football Association is trialling a radical solution: making kids give up headers completely.