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| Hitler’s bomb |
| World War II riddle solved. Nazi scientists exploded a nuclear bomb. Pathik Guha reports |
| Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi
novel The Man in the High Castle depicts a scenario in which an assassin’s
bullet kills US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his first year in office
in 1933. Vice President John Nance Garner takes over and establishes an isolationist
policy that weakens the US militarily. Unprepared for the attack on Pearl Harbour,
and unable to recover from the destruction of its entire fleet, by 1947 the US
surrenders to the Germans and the Japanese. The country is eventually cut up into
pieces which are controlled by the rulers in Berlin and Tokyo... |
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| An album for all |
Blogs are great for those who like to write and wonderful for those who like to
read, but what about people who don’t like to do either? They are expressing
themselves through photoblogs, web sites that are part visual diary, part photo
gallery, ... | Read.. |
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| QED: Technology oF trust
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Last week, The Sun newspaper in the UK reported that Kkaran Bahree, a Delhi-based
call centre executive, had sold the details of credit card, passport and personal
identification of account holders of a UK bank to the tabloid’s undercover
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| Recommended:
Guided tour of the brain
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MIND HACKS
Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
O’Reilly; $ 24.95 ... | Read.. |
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When Jeanna Giese, a 15-year-old girl from Fond du Lac in Wisconsin, US, recovered
from rabies early this year, she became the first person in medical history to
have survived the infectious disease. Conventional wisdom says that unless immunised,
no ... | 
