A Swedish documentary filmmaker released a film last year called “Last Chapter—Goodbye Nicaragua.” In it he admitted that he unknowingly facilitated a bombing, almost certainly orchestrated by the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, which took the…
Category: Culture
A new reality show of soldiers and celebrities playing war games showcases our national religion: military worship A new military-themed reality show from NBC, entitled “Stars Earn Stripes,” debuts tonight. The show “enthusiastically melds warfare and fame,”…
As a child I played war games (cowboys killing Indians). My friends and I routinely shot each other with toy guns of course. In my south Bronx neighborhood, older gang members had real guns and…
The Office of Naval Research – the same entity which runs the Naval Research Laboratory, developers of the unbelievable Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) – apparently was not satisfied with their already astounding Electromagnetic Rail Gun. A 5,600 mph…
Facebook’s share price dipped below $20 on Thursday after reporting slowing growth and an admission of an alarming number of fake accounts. In a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the social media company said…
Modern culture emerged in southern Africa at least 44,000 years ago, more than 20,000 years earlier than anthropologists had previously believed, researchers reported Monday. That blossoming of technology and art occurred at roughly the same time that…
1) Devices connected to internet leak information 2) CIA director says these gadgets will ‘transform clandestine tradecraft’ 3) Spies could watch thousands via supercomputers 4) People ‘bug’ their own homes with web-connected devices When people…
During my graduate-school years in New York City in the mid-seventies to early eighties, Manhattan was the world’s vibrant center of repertory film theaters: each night yielded an embarrassment of the world’s great cinematic riches,…
WUXI, Jiangsu, April 11 (Xinhua) — Rapid large-scale urbanization and improper countryside development are the main challenges facing cultural heritage protection in China, experts said Wednesday at a forum in east China’s Jiangsu province. Hundreds…
YANGON, April 11 (Xinhua) — The Japanese government will supply over 380,000 U.S. dollars for the education sector in Myanmar this month, local media reported Wednesday. Under its Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Projects…