Women In Peace Building In Northeast India

By Durang Basu MullickBased on my limited reading about the people from north east India from my school text books, I had drawn some similarity between the people there and the people in my home state, Jharkhand-that both of them are tribals; are similar to each other and are different from the non-tribals. However it was only during my post graduation, the syllabus of sociology gave a detailed...

Delhi Transit Hub in Narcotics Corridor

By Dwaipayan GhoshNew Delhi, Jun 27 : Data released by Narcotics Control Bureau on International Day Against Drug Abuse has once again shown how Delhi is rapidly emerging as a transit point of high-end drugs smuggled by international cartels.While the capital lags behind other states in use of ganja and opium, it ranks high in consumption of party drugs such as ketamine and cocaine. Maharashtra...

Tension Prevails in Meghalaya’s Garo Hills

Shillong, Jun 27 : Tension prevails in Garo Hills in western Meghalaya following Sunday’s killings of eight migrant coal miners by unidentified assailants, an official said here Wednesday.“The situation is still tense but under control in Garo Hills. We are keeping a close watch on the prevailing situation,” Commissioner of Divisions and in-charge of Garo Hills Peter W. Ingty told IANS.The government...

You Could Soon Earn A Degree In Drone Studies

COMING SOON TO A SCHOOL NEAR YOU University Of Nevada Students Could Soon Earn Degrees In Drone Studies Training now for the jobs of the future By Kelsey D. Atherton Karantania UAV A prototype military drone, designed by a team at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Slovenia Ministry of Defense A workshop...

North Korea Builds Its Own Tablet, Fails to Include the Internet

By Maia Brown-Jackson North Korea has come out with what’s basically its own version of an iPad: The Samjiyon. Unlike the iPad, which is used to access the Internet to get movies, books, and music in addition to communications and basic web-browsing,...

A Different Kind Of Drug Company

Illegal online drug bazaar begins massive advertising push By Adrianne Jeffries In the world of illicit virtual marketplaces, there is one clear leader: Silk Road, which has been in business since February of 2011. However, a few competitors have recently sprung up. The most visible is Atlantis, which has completely discarded the paranoia and caution that usually accompanies...

The Tapir Is The Animal With The Most Terrifying Penis

PROBABLY NSFW  In this not-exactly-safe-for-work video, two tapirs (a jungle-dwelling mammal, related to the rhinoceros) go at it with verve, while a nice family watches and makes what I assume to be amusing commentary. As Matthew Cobb at Why Evolution is True discovered, this is only one entry in a whole genre of tapir sex videos and tapir penis photos...

iOS 7 includes the ability to control your iPhone or iPad using head movements

Discovered by an anonymous tipster, iOS 7′s “Accessibility” section now includes a feature that allows you to control your iPhone or iPad with left or right head movements. We’ve tested this ourselves and found it to be quite accurate, but it’s quite tedious to control your device this way since it cycles through all of the options on the screen and you move your head when it is bordering around...