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(Our World in Data) How does the World Bank classify countries by income?
The World Bank classifies countries into four income groups based on average income per person. This article explains how these groups are defined.
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(xkcd.com) Unsolved Physics Problems
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) I guess it could be a “green substance” gun, technically
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dick Tracy, 7/13/25 It seems that the Dick Tracy time travel plot is now over … and the…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Yet more teen action
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Gil Thorp, 7/12/25 Hey, remember when Keri was in horse therapy, for their eating disorder? Well, big news:…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in settled societies (the sort with cities and writing). And when…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Indignant Friday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rhymes With Orange, 7/11/25 No, see, GoFundMe is the website you use for crowdfunding when you have an…
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(xkcd.com) Building a Fire
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 7: Deepening GiveWell’s Focus on Livelihoods Programs
GiveWell has long grappled with fundamental questions about how to value different positive impacts and make funding decisions across diverse programs. In particular, how much more valuable it is to save a life than to substantially improve it? And how can we prioritize between programs that achieve those outcomes in different measures when there’s no…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly teen Thursday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Archie, 7/10/25 I honestly enjoy the fact that some nameless gal is clearly scoping Archie and Reggie out…
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