How to get 14-year-olds to pay attention

I’m guessing having hot blondes giving micro-historical lectures PROBABLY could keep some attention….

Only in India: Come see our Thugs!

Actually, not Thugs, but Dacoits… see our beautiful terrain, and the thug-type people who make it dangerous… although I guess it would let us US tourist types see both terrain and talk guns while we were there.

Will probably get obscenely popular.

Medieval Baby Bottle Found in Old Novgorod

This is kewl.  Makes me wonder how many other modern conveniences they had in forms that generally didn’t survive because of the materials with which they were working…

From the Bwahaha Department: Gazprom has no Gaz

Finally, as predicted, the Russians grabbing everything in sight has failed to hide the fact that you can’t run a company the way the FSB runs the Press Freedom Office:

Anticipated by some independent experts in the West and Russia but otherwise widely ignored, Gazprom’s gas deficit became a reality by 2007 at the latest. Russia was able, however, to hide it temporarily through imports of Central Asian gas, which it used partly for Russia’s internal consumption and partly for re-export as “Russian” gas. This method no longer suffices to cover the deficit, as top officials in Moscow are now forced to admit, albeit obliquely.

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