Fun with maps

[br]

This NASA map shows the drastic amount of ice that’s disappeared from the arctic. Perennial Arctic ice, ice that survives the summer melt, has been drastic reducing in size. This map shows just how much it has changed over more than two decades.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-...ic-ice-2016-11

[Olli]

How many countries can you identify?

Can't resist the temptation to post my score here, which was 49/50. Confused Barbados and St. Lucia.

It seems my hours of staring at atlases are finally rewarded by this high-score and the possibility to brag about it here.

[gh]

which Brits are the most British? (with the caveat that this is basically a pay site trying to drum up business)

http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2016/09...nal+Paid+Media

[Atticus]

which Brits are the most British? (with the caveat that this is basically a pay site trying to drum up business)

My forebears are from the West Midlands, which means I'm 'less British' than those limey twits in Yorkshire, which is fine with me, given the funny noses and bad teeth of the Brits!!!

[jeremyp]

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org
How do we compare, wealth wise, to our parents? My father did better than I and so is my daughter. I guess a Ph. D. Doesn't come with a silver spoon. My father had a B.A. And was an Insurance executive, while my daughter became a nurse, then a Nurse Practitioner with big Pharma.

[jeremyp]

which Brits are the most British? (with the caveat that this is basically a pay site trying to drum up business)

http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2016/09...nal+Paid+Media

My mother was from Wales, and they don't even count!

[Daisy]

My mother was from Wales, and they don't even count!

It all depends how you define 'British'. I would have thought that the Welsh and the Cornish are the most British. How can the anglo saxons, invaders from continental Europe, be considered the 'most British'? That's like calling people from the US with pilgrim ancestors the most American while ignoring the native americans.

[Atticus]

It all depends how you define 'British'. I would have thought that the Welsh and the Cornish are the most British.

Indeed. All those Picts and Gaels and Britons are the real 'Brits'!

[lonewolf]

Indeed. All those Picts and Gaels and Britons are the real 'Brits'!

..but, from whence came the Picts and Gaels and Britons ???

[gh]

The geography of U.S. opiod deaths (and heroin deaths, and synthetic & classic opiod deaths), which suggests that Ohio/Kentucky/WV is not a happy place to be for many people:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.f8e5dcc10304

[booond]

The geography of U.S. opiod deaths (and heroin deaths, and synthetic & classic opiod deaths), which suggests that Ohio/Kentucky/WV is not a happy place to be for many people:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.f8e5dcc10304

How does it mesh with economic hope? Drug addiction and deaths have a curious pattern of following hope. The death of the middle class might have something to do with this.

[Atticus]

..but, from whence came the Picts and Gaels and Britons ???

Well . . . EVERYONE is from East Central Africa, but if you've been in a place for several thousand years, I'll give you credit for being native.

[TN1965]

How does it mesh with economic hope? Drug addiction and deaths have a curious pattern of following hope. The death of the middle class might have something to do with this.

Yes. But it's not substance abuse that is killing people prematurely.

http://www.vox.com/2016/12/13/139266...eath-by-county

[gh]

fascinating study!

[DrJay]

I worked on the Navajo reservation in Tuba City for a month when I was in residency in Denver. Poverty and sad conditions for many. Our pediatrician and his cardiologist wife worked on the same reservation somewhere. They also worked in Hyden, a SE Kentucky coal mining town (famous for a mine disaster that killed 38 men on Dec 30, 1970. I was eight, saw it all over the news in Louisville....my first realization that really bad things happen in life.) They said Hyden was so much worse than the reservation with regard to poverty, chronic illness, despair, ignorance, hopelessness, etc.