Archive for the ‘spain’ tag
The World Really Does Love Obama #
Because we hadn’t already heard it 1000 times. Also, I realize a lot of this is just noise, but — like Blake Houshnell — I’m wondering what Spain has against McCain.
The Jellyfish! They’re Everywhere! #
Apparently that’s what’s happening. The basics:
At the moment, it looks likely that humans may have only themselves to blame for the rise in jellyfish, through decades of overfishing. There is a certain Schadenfreude in knowing that Spain, home one of the world’s most voracious fishing fleets, is destined to suffer from blooms of jellies—which will presumably do no good at all to its tourist industry. Such pleasure, however, is short-lived when one realises that while Spanish fleets have long benefited from overfishing, we will all ultimately suffer the consequences.
Organ Donation Across the (First) World #
Despite my reservations about infographics, The Economist had a too-interesting-to-ignore one yesterday about postmortem organ donation. What’s really interesting is that the United States is second to Spain, which requires people to opt-out of donations.