Nilesh Babu

Desperate heroin users in a few African cities have begun engaging in a practice that is so dangerous it is almost unthinkable: they deliberately inject themselves with another addict’s blood, researchers say, in an effort to share the high or stave off the pangs of withdrawal. The practice, called flashblood or sometimes flushblood, is not [...]

Some of the world’s most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, hand-in-glove with global companies. At TEDxBerlin, Eigen describes the thrilling counter-attack led by his organization Transparency International.

I watched District 9 recently. This movie is shockingly unbelievably good. The movie is very raw; it grabs your attention and sucks you right in the middle of the action. I was screaming, “Oh! F**k”, “Holy Crap!”, “Oh! Shit!!”, “Damn!”… well, you get the picture. The plot & storyline is very engaging.

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