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This week on the podcast edition of All Things Considered, host Arun Rath explores the mines and child labor laws of Bolivia, speaks with comedian Judge John Hodgman, and discovers the value of two dueling dinosaur fossils.

Мир намного более поразителен, чем мы можем себе представить. Мы всё ещё находим в нём новые места и совершаем новые открытия, несмотря на то, что как вид живём здесь уже более 20-ти тысяч лет. В этой подборке мы собрали наиболее значимые открытия исследователей за последние пару месяцев. 1. Учёные нашли в Австралии «Затерянный мир», где обитает несколько уникальных видов животных В течение миллионов лет огромный […]

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Clashes among protesters in Thailand's capital have led to the death of at least one person amid mass rallies by opponents of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra as well as by supporters of her government.

Reuters says the person was shot dead and that 10 others were wounded in the first bloodshed in a week of protests aimed at toppling Yingluck, whose government won overwhelmingly in 2011 elections.

In other violence, Reuters reports,

"Anti-government protesters attacked a bus they believed was full of government 'red shirt' supporters. They also smashed the windshield of a taxi carrying people wearing red shirts, a pro-government symbol, and beat two people, one unconscious, police and Reuters witnesses said.

"As darkness fell gunfire erupted outside a sports stadium in Bangkok's Ramkamhaeng area, where about 70,000 red-shirted supporters of Yingluck and her brother, ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, had gathered for a rally.

"A gunman fired into Ramkamhaeng University, where hundreds of anti-government protesters had retreated after trying to block people from entering the stadium, witnesses said."

The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and trends on the horizon. Co-founder Carlos Watson joins All Things Considered regularly to tell us about the site's latest discoveries.

This week, Ozy deputy editor Eugene Robinson fills in for Carlos to tell NPR's Arun Rath about two dueling divas in Bangladeshi politics, the rising popularity of an obscure winter sport, and tattoos that you can wear to work.

"Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia. They had this phone call, where there were these great hopes for rapprochement. There's a transcript that we have where they're arguing — about arguing — while they're arguing. So there's this vocal jockeying and they make reference to the red phone. 'I called your red phone,' Hasina says. And Zia says, 'My red phone has been dead for years. You run the government, you should know that!'

"So right at the outset you know that things aren't going to get much better in the short term for these two. It's petty bickering ... and what makes it kind of shocking is that they've been doing it for about 20 years."

Read "Battle Of The Begums" at Ozy.com