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 …
Luis Rubio India advances uncontainably but in an exceedingly peculiar manner, deftly skirting the obstacles imposed upon it inexorably by its extraordinary linguistic, religious, and ethnic diversity. An extraordinarily complex and stratified society coming up against enormous barriers to progress, it has found innovative ways …
Luis Rubio All societies develop their myths and beliefs as ways to explain life, but in Mexico, these often fall short of reality. Someone once stated that if Kafka were Mexican, he would have been a narrator of everyday life. In that spirit, here are …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, called a meeting of presidents of South American countries to promote a regional integration process. The heads of state of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela attended the …
Antonio Navalón In 1911, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill – who then served as First Lord of the Admiralty – decided to change from coal to oil as fuel for the imperial naval fleet. And from that moment on, the whole world was configured with a …
Antonio Navalón It has already begun. The fall of the Berlin Wall, what Francis Fukuyama once called the end of history, was the end of one stage and the beginning of another – as was foreseeable and as experience on the behavior of the human …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Violence grips the lives of millions of citizens in much of the world. India seems to be reliving the conflicts of hatred between its two predominant religions that came into a dispute at the time of the subcontinent’s independence from British colonialism. …
To read the whole document, the controls for turning pages and zooming in or out are at the bottom left corner above.
