10 Things that Make America Amazing

1. Alcohol Enemas – The rest of the world has to be content with just water-enemas. But here in American hardly-working students ever on the search for a new high are resorting to Alcohol Enemas. If you want to know what an Alcohol Enema is, it means shoving a tube in your asshole and pumping […]

3 Indian Kids in 2012 Class of Thiel Fellows

Three desi kids have made their way into the second batch of 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows. Established by Bay Area entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook), the fellowships provide the winners with $100,000 over two years to skip college and pursue innovative scientific and technical […]

Prometheus Review – Where’s the Fire?

A few years back my doppelgänger watched Ridley Scott’s 1979 hit film Alien at the behest of some SI readers. Oh, what a disappointment it turned out to be. Maybe, my doppelgänger was smarter than the rabble that went aah and ooh over the movie or perhaps its DNA is too warped to appreciate the […]

Indian Wins Spelling Bee, Again; Telugu Gal Snigdha Nandipati is 2012 Bee Champion

Snigdha Nandipati won the 2012 Spelling Bee Championship at the Gaylord Hotel in Washington DC this evening. The winning word was GUETAPENS. Snigdha Nandipati Age 14, 8th grade School: Francis Parker School Hometown: San Diego, California At the end, the battle was between the three Indian kids Snigdha Nandipati, Arvind Mahankali and Stuti Mishra. Then […]

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