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Claims of Afghan mineral riches could be exaggerated
From the economic pont of view, Afghanistan does not seem a country to fight for. According to the OEC website, currently “The top exports of Afghanistan are Gold ($968M), Grapes ($214M), Insect Resins ($129M), Other Nuts ($113M), and Tropical Fruits($97.4M), exporting mostly to United Arab Emirates ($1B), Pakistan ($544M), India ($485M), United States ($35.6M), and China ($29.1M).” This list does not includes the illegal Poppy trade, which is estimated by Forbes to be about…
Resuming activity
Even if I did not write anymore, in the last months this blog had a staggering 79 views (mainly from the linked posts in LessWrong). The most viewed post was the one on heliocentrism (which was also the one on which I worked the most). Also, 2 people clicked on the link to Pliny’s Naturalis…
Election results in Central Europe match some pre-WW1 borders
I have seen this image of Quora: Election results are arguably one of the most apparent and easy to measure effects of complicated cultural diffences (provided that the country is sufficiently diverse to make cultural differences relevant). After reading Albion’s seed, I think that I understand much better the origin of some of the cultural…
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Forensic Oceanography 