A new draft bill lays the groundwork for an autonomous RuNet. Image from Wikipedia By Tetyana Lokot / 05.27.2016 Russian officials at the Communications Ministry are preparing the groundwork for a Russian Internet that would be fully controlled by the state. A new draft bill, tentatively titled “On the Autonomous Internet System,” would enable government[…]
By Jasleena Grewal / 05.27.2016 In February 2010, off-duty police officer Joseph C. Coffey was driving by a pond when he noticed a car partially submerged in it. He got out of his car and entered the water. He couldn’t open the front door, so he climbed through the back. There was a woman inside.[…]
Dining room scene from the Luttrell Psalter, 1325-1335. By Dr. Andrew Jotischky Professor of History Lancaster University For such a seminal historical event, Magna Carta is in some respects poorly recorded. We know quite a lot about who the rebel and loyalist barons were and where they came from, and we can reconstruct up to[…]
Mercer Family Plot at Bonaventure Cemetery. Photo © Ron Cogswell, Creative Commons By Dr. Kurt W. Alt and Dr. Stephanie Zesch, et.al. Alt – Professor of Biological Anthropology, Danube Private University Zesch – Biological Anthropologist, German Mummy Project 11:1 (Jan. 2016) Abstract The analysis of the human remains from the megalithic tomb at Alto[…]
By Kate Arnoff / 02.12.2016 Yesterday, The Atlantic’s Eric Liu asked what it would take to move presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s ambitious proposals from “we’re gonna” to “we’ve done it,” outlining seven steps to bridge the gap. First among Liu’s recommendations is a call for a “Bernie’s 30” of progressive congressional Democrats to oust Republican[…]
An 1858 woodcut celebrating the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable. (Library of Congress) By Ben Wilson / 05.22.2016 There is something wonderfully seductive about our gadgets. Sleek and futuristic, they seem not of this world – and certainly not of the toxic, noisy world of extractive rock mining. Few think of the ecological impact[…]