From the Butcher Shop to Cambridge University: Dan Burt’s Exceptional Journey

Saturday, November 15, 2014

‘Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan sharking, political corruption and crime of every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin, the oldest part of town. The Kevitch…

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Beyond The Raj: India Honours Fallen from WWI

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Honoring Its WWI Dead, India Moves On From Its Colonial Past Displayed with permission from Newsweek It has taken a century for Britain and India to commemorate more…

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Owning Ebola – The US Fight to Patent the Virus

Saturday, November 8, 2014

“The patent application for Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof was first filed on Oct. 26, 2009. The original assignee is “The Government of the…

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Ford, Ghomeshi and Fifty Shades of Exploitation

Sunday, November 2, 2014

“We joked about our relations being like a mild form of Fifty Shades of Grey” – from disgraced Radio personality, Jian Ghomeshi’s Facebook post describing a ‘consensual’ BDSM…

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