These maps show where the world’s youngest and oldest people live

Does this tell us where the next revolution will take place? What can the median age of a country tell […]

By Aidualc | 29 Sep 14 | Posted in Food for Thought, Statistics, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Can Data Predict Political Revolutions?

By Richard Florida, The Atlantic, First Tunisia, then Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Morocco seemingly spontaneously combusted from the bottom […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 16 Mar 11 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

The Youth Unemployment Bomb

From Businessweek, Peter Coy, In Tunisia, the young people who helped bring down a dictator are called hittistes — French-Arabic […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 10 Feb 11 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)