Alphabet soup

The Kazakh language comes in three shapes: Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin.

Apples to be eaten in the wind

“There’s small choice in rotten apples”, says Hortensio in Shakepeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. But among over 7,000 varieties of good apples grown worldwide there is immense choice.

There may be gold in them thar hills!

Mystery surrounds an extensive pattern of earthen works discovered in Kazakhstan.