Monthly Archives: January 2013

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Or $73B or $150-$270B, or $1.6T, depending on how you define it. Details in this WaPo story.

Originally posted on travelerreport:
Diving in the mediaeval fort of Chittor. India. Despite of its love affair with cricket, India is a big failure in sports. Since 1896, India has won only 26 olympic medals, most of them in field hockey. How…

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Dirty wars: the world is a battlefield, a new film by the Nation‘s brilliant investigative reporter  Jeremy Scahill and directed by Rick Rowley (of Big Noise Films) has won this year’s Sundance Film Festival Prize for…

Originally posted on travelerreport:
Helper washing a bus. Pakistan There is next to no training for would be drivers,… and the test is a farce. Licences are invariably obtained through bribery, and as a result there are real dangers on…