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"The blog is mightier than the sword." --Headline for article by journalist Amit Lewinthal, israelhayom.com (2012), perhaps relevant eons ago (by social-media standards); image from PDCAST [LISTEN] On Culinary Diplomacy: Culinary diplomacy utilizes...

[Occultist Aleister Crowley and his American pupil] Our helper who tracks down old newspaper clippings about Scientology sent us a real classic this week, something we haven’t seen in a while. It’s one of the most epic journalistic exposes in Scientology...

How Vladimir Putin’s desperate hold on power is fuelling the next revolution by Michael Petrou Illustration by Adrian Lee I. In late April, the forests surrounding Pikalyovo, an industrial city 250 km east of St. Petersburg, are still blanketed...

Rahul Kohli impresses SRK with his six-pack abs Newcomer Rahul Kohli who plays a brief role in director Farah Khan’s Happy New Year was pleasantly surprised when he received a word of praise from none other than megastar Shah Rukh Khan. &ldquo...

Part 3 of a four-part series It became known as the world’s first silent subway network. Before the Montreal métro opened, there was much debate about the city’s decision to adopt a system that rode on tires instead of traditional, noisy steel wheels...