Comments on: Aging Kazakhstan President Asks His Scientists to Find Fountain of Youth

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:41:07 +0000

actually it refers to Kazakh if speaking of title nation/ethnicity which is kazakh, and Kazakhstani if you mean a citizen of Kazakhstan no matter which ethnicity is s/he, or smth belonging to the whole country. So I’m both Kazakh, as my ancestors are native inhabitants of this country and Kazakhstani citizen.

By: Nova Terata

Nova Terata — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:31:45 +0000

Kat.. It’s capitol not capital. Capitol is the center of government. Capital is economic resources.

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:30:53 +0000

Quite right, Kat — sorry for the mistakes, and thanks for the catch. I think I was too focused on making sure we spelled “Kazakhstan” right each time…

– Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

By: Georg

Georg — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:42:48 +0000

Think of
the first emperor in China….
An interesting question might be, whether such
“mighty” men are more often insane than average men.
Georg

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:41:19 +0000

“Kazakhstanian”? Please tell your sub-editors the adjective is “Kazakh”… and it’s capital, not capitol.

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:34:58 +0000

Leaders going back literally thousands of years have been trying to extend their lifetimes. Somehow seems like it’s always the successful despots who go overboard on this effort.

Everything I’ve ever heard, all such efforts were a wash at best. Many speculate that a lot of the “potions” even shortened their lives. It’s certainly a reasonable speculation; many of these supposed elixirs of life contained known poisons like arsenic and mercury.