My story of a consultant brought in to help with a project to build a planet-destroying space station just appeared in Nature (the science journal). http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7624/full/538284a.html My notes about the story behind the story are on the Nature blog.
After Kazahkstan, I flew into Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan (a country which would have to be a contender for the most difficult to spell. The word Kyrgyz is apparently derived from the Turkic word for forty and refers to …
Kazakhstan is one of those countries that most people don’t know that much about. When I was at school, Kazakhstan was part of the Soviet Union and didn’t exist as a separate country. And then there was Borat – a …