Although I’ve worked for them as a summer job for several years, it wasn’t till a few days ago that a friend told me about the company structure of the Bosch Group. What he told me sounded really interesting, and so I investigated further. What I found out seemed so interesting that it just deserves [...]

Hans Rosling is an absolute legend! Who thought that a twenty-minute talk on statistics could be that much fun?! (I’m a trustworthy source; I have a love-hate relationship with numbers that definitely tilts more towards the hate side.)
This is last year’s video, in which he presents his new way of processing human development statistics with [...]

(In Spanish.)

This is utterly amazing. Hugo Chávez has joined the ranks of economics lecturers… the propaganda comments in between are a bit annoying, but right in most aspects. This idea does reek of a tienda de raya system, not allowing people to become integrated in the ‘real’ market and forcing them to obtain products within [...]

Crude oil exploitation in Ecuador has long been one of my favourite rant subjects, ever since I’ve seen it in person. But it seems that other people are on it, too: Sting’s wife, Trudy Styler, co-founder of the Rainforest Foundation, has just been there and has reported back on the experience.

A child plays next to [...]

I just rediscovered the Peak Oil theory and thought it was so nifty I just had to write about it. It is based on a theory by M. King Hubbert, an American geophysicist working for - attention - Shell in Houston, Texas. So you really can’t accuse the man of being unfavourably biased against oil [...]

Today, Russian president Vladimir Putin gave his long expected ’state of the union’-speech - his last one, as he reiterated, since he is due to step down in 2008. The speech was eagerly awaited by observers, especially across the Atlantic, after talks between Secretary of State Robert Gates and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov on [...]

A friend of mine, Aitor, recently introduced me to the website of Gapminder, a non-profit venture that maps human development in an easily accessible way. You never thought statistics about economic growth could be fun? Try Gapminder’s interactive presentation!

It has recently occurred to me that all governments should employ a few foreign assessors. Why? Because it seems to me that sometimes, foreigners are able to judge an idea without ideological or sentimental strings attached, and that sometimes, this might be a good thing.
One such idea is the process of euskaldunización in the Basque [...]