Well, it’s 40º below…
Urk.
Above: Via The Times (London, UK). Nothing like settling down for a cold evening in MPLS with the local English rag. Seems the American intelligence services are issuing a rather chilly forecast for our not to distant future-Weltuntergang! As in,
you know, end of the world type twak. This story is also running in Der Spiegel,
The Huffington Post, and the Guardian.
Apropos mirror, Der Spiegel is also running a fascinating story on a new map of the world, based on etymological history. Via The Atlas of True Names.
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