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Still one of my favorite surveys by the Economist is this one showing which decade of the 20th century respondents would like […]

Being bilingual can be a redundant waste of time in the extreme case that everyone you converse with also happen to be […]

A quick “thank you” to readers who brought this site to 1,000 hits shortly after I turned on the counter and figured […]

I don’t know how much longer they will keep this ad up after having lost the election last week, and also haven’t […]

Nice to see TED re-awaken a focused debate on the importance of walkability of cities, but their recently published list seems terribly […]

Today is a business day in most of the world, even in the nation attacked 12 years ago which officially marks it […]

In early 1898, Spain still controlled islands in both the East Indies and the West Indies that still qualified it as an […]

Similar to the Asterix cartoon and the 1970s Shanghai photo posted a few weeks ago, I wanted to continue the habit of […]

In 1947, the land of British India (not including Burma, whose then 9 million split off in 1937) was home to about […]

I have long said that gold is an ancient but outdated hedge against inflation.  Yes, in theory the amount of gold in […]