What Powered the World in 2022? This was originally posted on Elements. In 2022, 29,165.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity was generated around the world, an increase of 2.3% from the previous year. In this visualization, we look at data from the latest Statistical Review of World …
Antonio Navalón After reading and analyzing Henry Kissinger’s latest book, “Leadership”, which he has just published at the age of 100, I have discovered something important and worth noting. At this point in civilization, there is almost nothing new under the sun, and generally, the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Extremes touch, some say. And it is always surprising when it happens. The similarity between the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the presidential candidate of Argentina, Javier Milei, is undoubtedly surprising. Of course, one, the Mexican, claims to be …
How much do people trust that their governments are doing the right thing? Trust in the institutions, confidence in the path toward economic prosperity, shifts in trust from authorities to peers, trust in media, transparency and accountability, rule of law, democratic values, polarization, all these …
Antonio Navalón The story of this year, 2023, began on the shoulders of tanks. On February 24 last year, there was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and from there, naturally, we enter a scenario in which we have to combine, first, how the Russians feel …
Luis Rubio Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) says, “the True University of these days is a collection of books.” Here is my best attempt to share some of the readings that impacted me the most this year. Two emblematic dictators-Stalin and Hitler- were allies at the beginning …
Antonio Navalón This year has been a historic watershed. The 22nd year of the 21st century is on track to become a landmark year where the history of the world as a whole is taking a direction that will be discussed in the future. It …
