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Via Archaeology.org: Bruce Bower, An ancient civilization's wet ascent, dry demise Newly documented climate shifts helped shape Classic Maya destiny http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346350/description/An_ancient_civilizations_wet_ascent,_dry_demise Classic Maya civilization rose and fell w...

...most effectively by Imam Shamil , with informal British support. None of which says a thing about Current Events . It says a great deal about current events, which are of a piece with the history of this conflict. Of course you're right, Ibrahim. Inter-Muzzie telepathy and a series of video game...

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Amazing. Once they allow more independent movement of the fingers, prosthetics will have come of age.

I notice that Nigel is quite capable of holding a beer, which was a major factor in reviving this old school prosthetic:

Mark Lesek: A New/Old Prosthetic
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Via Archaeology.org: Kerri Smith, Early humans tooled up Sophisticated bladelets suggest that humans passed on their technological skill down the generations http://www.nature.com/news/early-humans-tooled-up-1.11765 A haul of stone blades from a cave in South Africa suggests that early humans were a...

Via Archaeology.org: Elisabetta Povoledo, Strays Amid Rome Ruins Set Off a Culture Clash http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/world/europe/rome-drawn-into-tiff-between-preservationists-and-cat-shelter.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Cats have prowled the streets of Rome since ancient times, more recently ...

Pres. Obama may grant the White House turkey a pardon, but some of its country kin will not be so lucky. Roast Wild Turkey with Walnut Stuffing and Mushroom Gravy http://www.canadianliving.com/food/roast_wild_turkey_with_walnut_stuffing_and_mushroom_gravy.php Portion size: 8 to 10 Wild turkeys are d...

...most effectively by Imam Shamil , with informal British support. None of which says a thing about Current Events . It says a great deal about current events, which are of a piece with the history of this conflict. Of course you're right, Ibrahim. Inter-Muzzie telepathy and a series of video game...

This work offers a charming look at Georgian gastronomy. Keep it in mind for your next Jane Austen-themed costume party. William Kitchiner, Apicius Redivivus (1817) Or, The cook's oracle: wherein especially the art of composing soups, sauces, and flavouring essences is made so clear and easy ... bei...

...most effectively by Imam Shamil, with informal British support. None of which says a thing about Current Events.

Royal Duty - I Vow To Thee My Country
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Happy birthday, Marines. 2012 Marine Corps Birthday Message: "For Honor, For Country" jx3VcGnslU4 United States Marine Corps Birthday Message 2012 http://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/MessagesDisplay/tabid/13286/Article/128574/united-states-marine-corps-birthday-message-2012.aspx 1. AS WE ...

Dr. Stephen J, Blank (ed.), Russia's Homegrown Insurgency: Jihad in the North Caucasus http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=1116 The three papers offered in this monograph provide a detailed analysis of the insurgency and counterinsurgency campaigns being conducted by I...

Roby C. Barrett, Iran: Illusion, Reality, and Interests https://jsou.socom.mil/Documents/Iran%2012-8%20Barrett%20FINAL.pdf (Right click, "Save target as...") Foreword Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has perhaps been the United States’ most intractable foreign policy issue. Once a ...

Dr. Mohammed El-Katiri, State-Building Challenges in a Post-Revolution Libya http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=1127 Following the overthrow of Muammar Qadhafi, Libya’s National Transitional Council inherited a difficult and volatile domestic situation. The new leader...

The November 2012 issue of Poetry is out. Clive James, A Stretch of Verse The notable, the quotable, and the forgettable http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/article/244758 A stretch of verse can have quite a high yield of quotable moments but we still might not think of it as being in one...

Auguste Escoffier, A Guide to Modern Cookery (1907) http://archive.org/details/cu31924000610117 Preface If the art of Cookery in all its branches were not undergoing a process of evolution, and if its canons could be once and for ever fixed, as are those of certain scientific operations and mathema...

From The Horseman restaurant in Karen, a Nairobi suburb: Zanzibar Coconut and Fish Soup An exquisite soup with just a hint of coconut. 1 coconut 1.25 L (2 pints or 5 cups) hot water 4 tbsp. cooking oil 1 kg (2 lbs.) seafish, boned and cut into 1 cm. (½ in.) cubes 250 g (8 oz.) celery, finely chopped...

From a Kenyan cookbook borrowed from a friend years ago: Sukuma Wiki Probably the best way to stretch leftovers to feed a hungry family. The name means literally "push the week." 500g (1 lb.) kale or other greens such as spinach 2 tbsp. oil 1-2 onions, chopped 2-4 tomatoes, peeled and chop...

P.F.M. Fellowes et al., First Over Everest (1934) The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, 1933 http://archive.org/details/firstovereverest006898mbp Foreword by John Buchan, C.H., M.P. I have been asked by my colleagues of the Everest Flight Committee, to set out briefly in untechnical language what s...

http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m586/Horev/ClimbingParty.jpg The Second Climbing Party descending from their record climb C.G. Bruce et al., The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922 (1923) http://archive.org/details/assaultonmountev00bruc Introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. C...

All sound points but none of these obstacles seem particularly more difficult than the challenges facing large-scale nuclear power adoption. To my knowledge, there aren't any fool-proof reactor designs ready to be deployed en masse . DC transmission lines exist for relatively low-loss long-distance...

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Zack Morris wrote:Solar is trouble free. Its only drawback is cost... for now.

Solar is far from trouble-free. Photovoltaic cells are not terribly efficient; supplying enough power even for a small city requires an enormous array of collectors on land for which the highest and best use is probably something else.

Eliza Strickland, Can Japan Phase Out Nuclear Power? The country wants to go nuclear-free, but many obstacles remain http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/can-japan-phase-out-nuclear-power Before the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident of 2011, Japan was the third largest producer of nuclear powe...

Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins and The Black Pearl were standard fare for students in Grades 3 and 4 in my time. Via Archaeology.org: Steve Chawkins, 'Island of the Blue Dolphins' woman's cave believed found A Navy archaeologist and his crew are digging out a cave on San Nicolas Island t...