Themes of the issue: Titans of antiquity and the increase of planets, theories of Kozyrev and Veinik; about life expectancy. Ancient earthquakes and housing construction. Fires: arson or carelessness? Russian raiders, prisons, morality and happy zones for repeat offenders. Economy, trade and war - doubts about the theory of passionarity. Education as a nation’s grief: streams of words – music without pauses; counting technique; “Sharikovs” and the country’s gene pool, the origins of the Unified State Exam. Ideas about paralife, suicide bombers of jihad and Allah Akbar. And, as always, school exercises in generating breakthrough ideas.