Thanks to particularities of the Chinese language, China’s largest Internet service provider has launched a mobile app with a name — Weixin — that means “little message,” but also can mean something else. Its geo-location feature helps strangers meet up anywhere. So who exactly is going to get excited about yet another…
Women Having Wilder Sex And Watching Porn Fifty Shades of Grey’ Film Adaptation Faces Challenge From ‘Control-Freak’ Author If bestselling books turned into movies are hot, bestselling books about kinky sex turned into movies about kinky sex must be even hotter. 50 Shades of Grey is the “triple-X” trilogy originally self-published by E.L. James that’s being devoured by women across the…
Fukushima Chiefs: The Technology Needed To Decommission China-Syndromed Reactors Doesn’t Exist … Maybe In 200 Years? Updated 4/9/2015 Preface: As you read this post, please keep in mind: The reactors didn’t just suffer a melt down, or even a China syndrome type melt-through, but a series of melt OUTS. Scientists have no idea where…
March 20, 2012 Knowledge is a property of the network: Mapping Britannica’s world in a Wikipedia age Matthew Battles argues that the nature of knowledge is changing in the context of networks. By Matthew Battles Email At The New Republic, David A. Bell offers a wistful threnody for the paper edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica,…
Behind an elegant door on a posh street in London, Damien Hirst, one of the world’s greatest artists, sits surrounded by treasures: an Andy Warhol “Electric Chair” is propped on a shelf; a major Francis Bacon hangs over the room’s mantel; a piece by Jeff Koons sits nearby. That’s as it should be—Hirst is filthy…
Editor’s Note: Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian – Israeli Middle East analyst and the co-author of The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and The State of Iran. The following post was originally published in The Diplomat, a stellar international current-affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region. By Meir Javedanfar, The Diplomat The Iranian regime can live without its nuclear program….
Egyptian women shout political slogans during a demonstration to mark International Women’s Day in Cairo on March 8, 2012. Hundreds of women marched through the Egyptian capital demanding the right to co-draft the country’s new constitution. Zakaria: Is the Arab Spring bad for women? By Fareed Zakaria, CNN Hundreds of you have submitted very thoughtful…
Taking a low dose of aspirin every day can prevent and possibly even treat cancer, fresh evidence suggests. The three new studies published by The Lancet add to mounting evidence of the drug’s anti-cancer effects. Many people already take daily aspirin as a heart drug. But experts warn that there is still not enough…
Saudi Arabia: The Courage Of One Woman Speaks For An Entire Nation Samar Badawi looks a little forsaken on the big stage in Washington. Shyly, she listens to the noble words a world-famous figure is saying about her: “You are making a difference. And we thank you for that.” Then suddenly the…