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Im Vergleich zur Grippewelle 2017/18 mit 932.272 Todesfällen stehen 1.5 Millionen Coronatote – das Jahr ist noch nicht vorbei.

I’ve been following the news in Myanmar for several years. I conciously noticed Myanmar as one of the most miserable places on this planet the first time around 2000 in San Francisco, when some friends and I went to a Burmese Restaurant. We were part of a supper club, picking the cuisine by following the alphabet and matching it with a country starting with that letter. We picked Burma for B, just to learn that officially it was Myanmar.

It feels like there is nothing we can do to help, but there is! Read on to learn what you can do to help the Burmese people!

Chinese authorities aim to regulate reincarnation to control Tibetan leadership, nominating the next Dalai Lama; continue reading.

Fed erhöht seit 17 Quartalen die Zinsen, EZB erhöht zum vierten Mal ganz vorsichtig – völlig verschiedene Strategien.

Google has the not so well-known Zeitgeist project that looks at what’s going on through the spyglass of searches. They just released the Zeitgeist for 2005, as the end of the year approaches. It shows how the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction correlates with the US presidential elections, or how Wikipedia gained momentum this year.

Hamilton Naki is dead. I learned about it in this week’s Economist Obituary. I didn’t know who he was before reading this story. He lived in South Africa during apartheid, and was a brilliant surgeon. But he was black and nobody was allowed to know, so officially he was the gardener.