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This is very concerning. The United States is progressively withdrawing from most international organizations. Trump had already with their own from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNESCO. On 7th January he took the United States out of 66 international organizations or treaties...

The Trump administration has increased its threats of invading and annexing Greenland. Right after attacking Venezuela and capturing president Madura, President Trump announced that they also needed Greenland. Anyone who has been following a bit the news knows that the attack on Venezuela is...

I've been following Evan Edinger on YouTube for a while. He is an American from New Jersey has been living in London for the past 13 years. He came as student and decided to stay. Is YouTube channel is mostly dedicated to the differences between the US and UK (or Europe in general)...

Type Ashton is one of my favorite YouTube channels. The videos are very high quality, worthy of a BBC documentary. I've already shared a few of them before but this one is probably one of the most important so far. Over 40% of the food in the US and Canada is thrown away, against only about 7%...

While I already knew well the limitations of the GDP per capita for judging how rich a country is, the video made me think of calculating the Net GDP per capita of 'supposedly rich countries'. To do this, just subtract the public debt per capita from the GDP per capita. By doing this we see that...

At present, 20 countries already operate high-speed railways. This includes 12 European countries, as well as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Egypt should open its first line this summer. India and Thailand will follow next year. In the...

I promise you that I am not trying to bash the United States. But when you see data like this it's hard not to be indignant towards the world's first economy. The U.S. recycle a smaller share of their plastics than practically any other region on Earth. It lags even behind Sub-Saharan Africa...

This is the most comprehensive map of variations of English accents in North America that I found so far. Very interesting.

Whenever American citizens meet other Westerners and discuss their working conditions and rights it always comes as a shock to both sides how grossly exploited American workers are. It's pretty eloquent. This is the world map of the Labour Rights Index for 2024. The index is computed based on...

I have created maps of traffic-related deaths per 100,000 inhabitants for the Unites States and Europe. When looking at the statistics per country from Wikipedia, I noticed that the US states with the worst road fatality rates were way above anything observed in other developed countries and...

I've discussed before (notably here) the difference between American and European food, and in particular how so many food additives, hormones and chemicals typically found in food in the US is banned in Europe and even in countries like China. Here is a video about American food products banned...

This is not a joke and I'm not delusional. I'm also not contesting that Donald Trump has won the US election. But he's only going to become president in two and a half months. In the meantime Kamala Harris could still be president if Joe Biden steps down. She is in a very unique position as a...

In four days American citizens will decide whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be the next US president. The race is so close that it's impossible to call. Even the best political forecasters that got the previous elections right are divided about 50-50 this time. Whoever wins, it's going...

Puerto Rico has be part of the United States since 1898. To put this in perspective, five U.S. states were admitted into the Union after that time - namely Oklahoma (1907), New Mexico (1912), Arizona (1912), Alaska (1959) and Hawaii (1959). In fact, Alaska and Hawaii only became U.S. territories...

With the looming US presidential election, I thought it would be interesting to post about an important trend in US politics, namely that religiously active people are considerably more likely to vote than the the inactive and unaffiliated. This trend was identified by Pew Research in 2019. In...

I was wondering how various countries compared in their murder clearance rates, so I had to look at the data and found something rather concerning. In the US the percentage of homicides that have been solved has been steadily declining since the 1960s. This graph shows that it declined from 91%...

I am a young and inexperienced Genealogical 'hobbyist' from the United States. I have taken a 'qualitive genotyping' test with tellmeGen to try and discover my Ancestry origins, more interest specifically in my Paternal Haplogroup, and it returned the following results: Your paternal haplogroup...

Americans like to think that they live in the freest country in the world. While it is not even close to being the case, as I've explained here, there is one thing for which the US may be the freest country in the world and that is freedom of speech. I found this video that explains the...

I mentioned food swamps in another thread about American supermarkets. Here is an interesting article that explains the phenomenon. New study at the Georgia Cancer Center sheds light on the danger of “food swamps” "Food deserts have become a relatively common term referring to areas where...

Ashton, an American woman from Illinois with a PhD in human geography, urban planning and architecture, who moved to Freiburg in Germany 5 years ago, decided to compare how much money someone would earn in the US vs Germany was a similar job and life situation once all the taxes, social security...