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A collection of 7 posts

INDUSTRY: A Global Overview

Aiming for the proverbial ten-thousand foot view both in terms of geography and categories. Introduction What do we mean when we talk about Industry? In this post (and others on the same theme that I have planned for this year), I'm using "Industry" in its narrower

2023 Year in Review

... I believe themes of technology and industry will be useful/productive to continue reading, thinking, and writing about in the year ahead.

Humanity on the Move

The topic I'm writing about in this post is something I see as a very serious issue—both in humanitarian terms and for the impact I expect it will have in the near future. Awareness of the Issue Headline after headline recently have told of staggering numbers of

Yemen

In 2012, I had the opportunity to travel to Yemen for my job (a couple of my photos from that trip are at the end of this post). Since then, that country has held a special interest for me. So one time when I was in The Midtown Scholar [http:

Is the Aral Sea still shrinking?

When I was in university, I took a class called "Intro to International Development Studies". For that class, I researched and wrote an essay on the Aral Sea crisis in Central Asia. I learned a lot from writing that essay—I believe it's where I first

A Journey Through Ukraine

With the current events in the Ukraine, I thought it would be a good time to pick up and read Where the West Ends by Michael J. Totten. Michael Totten [http://www.michaeltotten.com/] is an independent foreign correspondent that I've followed for a while. He initially grabbed

The World By Numbers

Although my statistics skills are stronger now and I probably would do some things differently now, I still like this analysis I did back in 2010 on some publically-available data on countries around the world. I wrote it on Facebook then a former classmate from UNB who works in the