This is really important: Russia Today Lacks Resources to Use ‘Crimean Scenario’ Everywhere It Might Like, Moscow Analysts Say. Russia simply does not have the military forces to continue a low-level war in Ukraine, destabilize the Baltic States, occupy the Arctic, and guard its border with China. This is why President Obama and European leaders don't bother to respond to Vladimir Putin's bluster. It's just bluster. I hope to do a more quantitative post on this.
A couple of good new blogs:
"Millysievert" describes herself as: Professional nuclear layperson, a.k.a. Executive Assistant to the World Nuclear Association Director General. Got a C in GCSE Physics. Fascinated by nuclear despite that. She is letting us join her learning curve at Nuclear Layperson.
Red mercury is famous as a substance that makes nuclear weapons easier to build. Except it doesn't exist. Now it seems to be in Africa and someone finds it necessary to debunk it.
In case you missed it: how sex began.
Kazakhstan is where apples came from. Like a lot of other plants, their genetic diversity is now in danger.
Does Ebola immunize people without their getting sick? Other viruses do, and if Ebola does, the prospects for a general epidemic are less.
If you need a holiday, today is Mole Day!
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George Soros has a completely different take on standing up to Putin.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/wake-up-europe/
Where do people get the notion that countries are being pulled away from Russia by the West? Russia has driven them away and they are fleeing as fast as they can to what they see as a far better system and way of life.
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