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Listen now (10 min) | It is time to decisively throw off the shibboleths of the immediate post-independence period. The Chola-style sengol is being restored to its rightful place as a symbol of the resurgent Indian State.

Heat as a rite of passage in the kitchen. Around the age of twelve, I expressed a desire to learn cooking. “Want to learn to cook?”asked my mother, as she […]

Just because technology can do something doesn’t mean it should

One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or speed. What matters is ho

How cocaine, the "patent medicine" industry and mass advertising created the world's most iconic beverage.

I like to write, and occasionally I idly consider the possibility that I should do it for a living. Then I remind myself: writing is a…

As U.S. meat supplies fell in the wake of bison kill-offs, a group of adventurers sought to bring hippo meat to the swamps of Louisiana.

How I remember my father

It’s tempting to invest in areas that promise certain returns for a given investment. Unfortunately, by the time an opportunity has become so well understood that anyone could pursue it, it is well on the way to commoditization. To find big payoffs, you must be willing to explore high uncertainty bets.

In the '90s, JFK Jr. founded a revolutionary magazine, which covered politics like it was pop culture. Was it a glimpse of the future?

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The citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel

On December 2, 1942, Chicago Pile-1 went critical, creating the world’s first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

There’s a resurgence of interest in the pioneering singer-songwriter who disappeared when she was 50.

We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm

“They’re nature’s hilarious accidents."

Once a symbol of affluence, the stretch limo has largely fallen out of favor as the rise of Uber and Lyft, the Great Recession and new regulations hastened a shift to chauffeured vans and S.U.V.s.

Try out the BBS yourself! http://bbs.fozztexx.com Follow me on Twitter for previews & behind the scenes pics of projects I'm working on: http://twitter.com/FozzTexx A little Show & Tell of what was involved in going online in 1979 and doing a very early form of social media. The computer used is a TRS-80 Model II, the modem is a rebranded Novation CAT, and the telephone is a Western Electric model 500.

Authorities eventually recovered 96 of the lost timepieces, including a $30 million watch commissioned for Marie Antoinette

There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.

After the English Revolution—and an island’s experiment with republicanism—a genuine restoration was never in the cards.