Every time I read an article about the melting ice caps, there is always a sentence like this:
Shipping firms have already proposed taking short cuts through the polar region, which also contains large reserves of oil and natural gas.
[From Al Jazeera English - Americas - Arctic ice 'could melt by 2013' ]
Aaaaand cue intro riff [...]
Iran has no weapons-grade uranium, US military officials have said in an attempt to clarify recent statements from Washington and Israel.
[From BBC NEWS | Americas | Iran 'has no bomb-grade uranium']
Can we just make up our mind about this?
This is one of those weird things I like: nationalism and it’s influence on historical imagination. Specifically how in the Balkans it’s impossible to talk about linguistics without talking about nationalism. Romanians claim their language has an ancient substrate from Dacian, Greeks get all pissy about the Macedonians calling themselves Macedonians, and the Macedonians get [...]