"Volapuk". (via Spook Country) The same idea in Arabic.


"The Ottoman Empire was a golden shell bristling with weapons, whose cover became thinner and thinner as it grew... It lacked the one essential element that any state needs to be saved, a population that identified with the state." --Peter F Sugar, Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule 1354-1804 (1977)


wasabi kernel lost
roach catch
buzz


"The nightmare scenario, of course, is what happens if an extremist Islamic government emerges — with an instant nuclear arsenal." (via Cursor)


A Secret History of the War on Cancer.


Homeboy. (noticed by Silliman)