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Map prepared by Andrew Oh-Willeke with this web tool . Piracy incidents in 2021 per the ICC-CCS . The first map was prepared from a starting...

Politico named the most dangerous place on earth right now. The "Suwałki Gap" from Belarus to Kaliningrad, where the border of Pol...

From here . Women from households with low income and very high incomes have the most children per lifetime, while middle and upper middle i...

We are none of us one thing alone and unchanging. We are not static, or at rest. Just as a city or a prince's court or a lineage is many...

Economic fitness corresponds to fitness in other domains as well. People who are successful tend to be well off across the board, even thoug...

Where do people use top sheets? In the British Isles (i.e. Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England, plus some small islands in the vicinity) pe...

After noting the extent to which the U.S. is providing multiple rocket launchers and howitzers to Ukraine, a Washington Post story notes Rus...

Polling by the Global Strategy Group of registered voters in Colorado puts Colorado's incumbent Democrats, Governor Polis and U.S. Sena...

Sources including Politico report that 10 Republican Senators have joined Democrats to back gun control measures which would create a filib...

I Voted . Today, I cast my Denver primary ballot (by mail).  There are only two contested races. There was a very marginal challenge to our ...

This is useful background information for future reference.   Among the 46 states that do give their governors authority to name replacemen...

Rail gauges present another set of differing national standards that are really little more than historical accidents. Also, this is relevan...

More destroyers is not the right response to concerns about China invading Taiwan or seizing control of the Western Pacific.  Anti-ship weap...

This is what should be the case if the system is working properly. Query if sorting effects are properly controlled for, however. Most gradu...

A study of the socio-economic class impacts of the establishment of the civil service system in the U.S. federal government (which must have...

  The commonplace pablum in this meme is widely accepted uncritically (apart from its obvious poetic disregard for the laws of physics). But...

Curiously, in a chain of schools that are in a former British colony, the instruction method is much more in line with the centralized appro...

It is day 100 of the Ukraine War. Russia's initial efforts to seize Kyiv and secure regime change in all of Ukraine failed, disgracing i...

Public ownership of the means of production exists on a continuum, and often, it isn't a remarkable or bad thing. [I]n Florida, 77% of u...

One of the most appalling aspects of the current Republican Party is its utter lack of respect for reality, using illegitimate and improper ...