Most of what was advocated by idealistic social reformers, trying to mould and re-hammer our Beliefs, was actually converted into fact not by them but by K-forces pouring steadily under their momentum out of unromantic research laboratories into factories, and from there into the ordinary, everyday ways of life. Synthetic vitamins, nylon tights, lice-less hair, pneumonia-free hitch-hiking , sex without v.d., soap without scum, progesterone-planned families, paperback in the pocket, theatre in the bedroom,[…]

Ph.D’s will go to Kirk G. Rasmussen and Val Hicks.

A canteen in China's southwest municipality of Chongqing collapsed on Friday following an explosion suspected to be caused by a gas leak, leaving many trapped, according to reports from state media.

In India, too, people now wish to bring that argument to a close: to replace the ruckus of politics with the moralized ideology of Hindutva.