Stuff below the fold

StrategyPage has a long column on the troubles in China.
corruption, counterfeit goods, shoddy manufacturing, and underpaying workers...

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Charise makes Rolling Stone.
Headsup OTWOMD

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From HeritageKey: Otzi the Iceman's DNA is being analyzed. His DNA is similar to 8 percent of modern Europeans in that area...suggesting later migrations intermarried and replaced these neolithic peoples.

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also from HeritageKey: Who are the Aryans?

The best "putdown" on Hitler's pseudoscientific theory was done by a certain professor of Anglo Saxon, JRRTolkien, back in the 1930's:
I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by 'arisch'. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. ... But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people...
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Audiobooks of the week:

Volume one of the Mabinogion, celtic legends.

and the full audiobook of James' Varieties of Religious Experience is also now available.

Most of the discussions of religion/atheism are clueless, so this is a good place to start to understand the phenomenum.

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earthquakes in southern Philippines related to an underwater volcano. PHOTO.