Cool news — my article on Bartitsu ranked in the top 10 (it ranked #4) most popular martial arts articles at Breaking Muscle! Here’s a list of the top 10 martial arts articles for 2012 at Breaking Muscle and here’s my Bartitsu article.

My new article is up at Breaking Muscle, “Bartitsu: The Steampunk Mixed Martial Art.”

Talks about Steampunk, martial arts, self-defense, Sherlock Holmes, Women’s Suffragist Movement, and really cool mustaches…

I hope you enjoy it and let me know what you think!

Weekend reading links for 23 September 2011, including: sushi etiquette, cultural insights from 5 million books, Bartitsu demonstration, and great science discoveries.

1. Culturomics: What We Learned from 5 Million Books: Great TED talk on some cultural insights from digitizing and processing 5 …