Having so many drones flying around may have “serious implications” for journalists and researchers; India named its first “yoga czar”; meanwhile, a Fox News interview shows the holes in Dick Cheney’s defense of CIA torture. These discoveries and more below.

Hackers: We Won’t Release Sony Employees’ Data if They Ask Nicely The hacker group that infiltrated Sony Pictures may be showing some lenience. A little bit. Sort of.

Many More Eyes in the Sky Drones going mainstream has serious implications both for the future of journalism and for researchers of journalism.

Claiming Yoga for India India has its first ‘yoga czar,’ Shripad Yesso Naik.

Big-Data Scientists Face Ethical Challenges After Facebook Study Though it may not feel like it when you see the latest identity-affirming listicle shared by a friend on Facebook, we are a society moving toward evidence.

Does Jewish Law Allow Torture? Legal and rabbinic scholars have long debated the controversial issue.

Out Here It’s 2014 The New Republic was trapped in the year 1954 — and wanted the rest of us to join them there.

‘I Hate Arabs. I Wish I Could Kill Them All’;An Activist’s Last Day in Hebron Anti-Arab slogans were not new to me. “Tomorrow there is no school in Gaza; there are no children left”, had been chanted during the recent Gaza massacre by angry fascist mobs in Tel Aviv.

Flamenco’s Repression and Resistance in Southern Spain Recently recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and increasingly used by communities in southern Spain to attract tourism, flamenco music and dance seem to enjoy an unprecedented revival all around the world.

Fox Catches Dick Cheney Lying About Torture The former vice president’s defense of brutal CIA interrogations is falling apart under scrutiny.

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