Moscow – The Kremlin had better brace itself for a coming wave of WikiLeaks disclosures about Russia, the website’s founder, Julian Assange, told a leading Moscow newspaper Tuesday.
“We have [compromising materials] about Russia, about your government and businessmen,” Mr. Assange told the pro-government daily Izvestia. “But not as much as we’d like… We will publish these materials soon.”
He then dropped a hint that’s likely to be nervously parsed in Russia’s corridors of power: “We are helped by the Americans, who pass on a lot of material about Russia,” to WikiLeaks, he said.
Russian security experts say there probably won’t be anything comparable to the huge archives of US military secrets from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that the website has recently published.
‘A Lot of Interesting Facts’ About Russia
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Why Some Cats Are Plain and Others Patterned » .
Holy crap: Trust .
Pollinators: Evolutionary flower power.
Religion is on the rise around the world. If the United States fails to confront the implications of this growth properly the potential for religiously motivated violence across the globe may increase dramatically over the next century.
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Hidden X-ray source found in Milky Way.
Zoologger: Lemmings swap suicide for infanticide – environment .
An international team of researchers based at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing has discovered well-dated human fossils in southern China that markedly change anthropologists perceptions of the emergence of modern humans in the eastern Old World.The discovery of early modern human fossil remains in the Zhirendong (Zhiren Cave) in south China that are at least 100,000 years old provides the earliest evidence for the emergence of modern humans in eastern Asia, at least 60,000 years older than the previously known modern humans in the region.
“These fossils are helping to redefine our perceptions of modern human emergence in eastern Eurasia, and across the Old World more generally,” says Eric Trinkaus, PhD, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences and professor of physical anthropology.
New Fossil Discovery in China Redefines Emergence of Modern Humans
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Ten years to save the touchscreen .
Immune Therapy Steps Up the Attack — .
From easyJet to Facebook, road signs to clothing labels, we are surrounded by a world of type. But what messages do its different kinds convey? In this extract from his new book, Just My Type, Simon Garfield looks at the history of typefaces, the obsessive care taken over their design – and the role they play in shaping our lives
Old Victorian printing letters for a letterpress. Photograph: Steven Heald/Alamy
On 25 September 2007, a woman named Vicki Walker committed a type crime so calamitous that it cost her not only her job, but almost her sanity. Walker was working as an accountant in a New Zealand health agency, and there was an email to send. Regrettably, she ignored the only rule that everyone who has ever emailed knows: CAPITAL LETTERS LOOK LIKE YOU HATE SOMEONE AND ARE SHOUTING.
It was a Tuesday afternoon. Walker pressed “Send” on this instruction: TO ENSURE YOUR STAFF CLAIM IS PROCESSED AND PAID, PLEASE DO FOLLOW THE BELOW CHECKLIST….
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New insight into links between obesity and activity in the brain .
Extinction threat growing for vertebrates, researchers report in Science .
Year-long opiate substitution for drug misusers has 85 percent chance of cutting deaths | .
Images Erotic. (NSFW but worth going there as some good surprises will be found)
High resting heart rate associated with shorter life expectancy .
Continuing biodiversity loss predicted but could be slowed .
15 Highest-Paid Charity CEOs
As the report states in its introduction, “Many donors assume that charity leaders work for free or minimal pay and are shocked to see that they earn six figure salaries. But these well-meaning donors fail to consider that these CEOs are running multi-million dollar operations that endeavor to change the world.”
New snub-nosed monkey discovered in Northern Myanmar .
The Air Force swears there was no panic. But for three-quarters of an hour Saturday morning, launch control officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming couldn’t reliably communicate or monitor the status of 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles. Gulp.
Backup security and communications systems, located elsewhere on the base, allowed the intercontinental ballistic missiles to be continually monitored. But the outage is considered serious enough that the very highest rungs on the chain of command — including the President — are being briefed on the incident today.
A single hardware failure appears to have been the root cause of the disruption, which snarled communications on the network that links the five launch control centers and 50 silos of the 319th Missile Squadron[1]. Multiple error codes were reported, including “launch facility down[2].”
It was a “significant disruption of service,” an Air Force official familiar with the incident tells Danger Room. But not unprecedented: “Something similar happened before at other missile fields.”
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