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Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery,” goes Mao’s famous dictum. “A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence in which one class overthrows another.” The aftereffects of this kind of violence on a nation’s citizens is the subject of the South African writer C. A. Davids’s new novel How to Be a Revolutionary, out from Verso this month. In chapters that crisscross between present-day Shanghai, apartheid-era Cape Town, Beijing during the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests, and a series of McCarthy-era...

Fun fact: Before February 14th became intrinsically linked with an avalanche of hearts, chocolates, and roses, it was first connected to the notion of romantic love by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1382, as he wrote a poem honoring King Richard II’s engagement to Anne of Bohemia. Today Valentine’s Day is, of course, synonymous with love, and while presents for adults can go heavy on the romance, the best Valentine’s Day gifts for kids are unique, cute, and fun. You don’t want anything over-the-top or cheesy, and you want to do something sweet for them without drowning them in sentiment they’re too...

Enlarge / Western Digital's recent WD Black SN770 SSD. (credit: Western Digital) Solid-state storage devices have so far been spared from the scarcity and high prices that the chip shortage has wrought upon graphics cards, cars, Raspberry Pi boards, and innumerable other products. But that may change soon, due in part to a "contamination" at two Japanese factories used by Western Digital and Kioxia to make flash memory. According to a short Western Digital press release, the contamination issue has affected "at least" 6.5 exabytes of flash memory, which works out to a bit under 7 million terabytes or 7 billion gigabytes—that's a...

Click here to read 42 Easter Crafts for Toddlers! “Egg-cellent” for 2 & 3 Year Olds on Hands On As We Grow® Celebrate Easter and Spring with 42 super simple Easter crafts for toddlers! I am so in love with Spring right now. It’s such a welcoming time of year after being cooped up inside for way too long. Whenever I think Spring, I also think Easter. And when I think Easter, I think crafts: Easter eggs, crosses and of course Easter bunnies! But I still have a toddler in the house and I often stop myself when choosing crafts...

We’ve come a long way from daguerreotypes to high resolution digital photos that we take everyday from our phones or cameras. Thanks to modern technology, we can capture our memories and interesting moments within an instant. However, with great power (of taking hi-res photos anytime anywhere) comes great responsibility (of keeping them from getting lost). It would be one of the greatest losses if you accidentally delete your photos and (if you don’t have them backed up) not able to recover them ever. In this article, I am going to discuss the possible solutions to avoid losing your photos. On...