The Octoclause of Doom A mysterious amendment to an obscure clause in the Indian copyright act threatens the already slim-profit margins of local publishers.
Reason & Religion: Odd Couple Redux Reza Aslan and Sam Harris discuss religion and reason. Let’s hug it out, bitches.
YoungUncle Wins The ALA Notable Award Vandana Singh’s book “Younguncle Comes To Town” wins the ALA’s Notable Book Of The Year award.
The Politics Of Captain Nemo On Jules Verne’s strange hero Captain Nemo and how Nemo’s radical history was suppressed by English translators.
Say, lovely woman, the number of bees: Bhaskara’s Lilavati Is math dirrty? Bhaskaracharya’s great mathematics textbook Lilavati gets it absolutely right. Be prepared to get moist.
Thomas Barnett: Mapping The Next Neo-Snafu Parsing political futurist Thomas Barnett’s semi-moronic blueprint for creating the next American century.
Review: 20 Cases Suggestive Of Reincarnation by Ian Stevenson Reincarnation is one of those ideas that refuses to die. A review of Ian Stevenson’s empirical studies.