europe

I am looking to move out from Portugal and find another country to live indefinitely. I would like you to advise me the top 3 countries offering me what i look for. Key important points for me to consider relocating: - Country with a "good, stable financial situation" where unemployment rate...

I have found this map of Europe on BigThink. It shows what a European Union with 28 equipopulous member states would look like. But the division is far from arbitrary. I have thought about redividing the EU by considering the cultural, ethnic, linguistic and historical similarities between...

It's been a while since I haven't made any new maps. Here is an attempt to show what Europe, the Near East and North Africa looked like in terms of Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups some 10,000 years ago. I delimited the (very) approximate borders of the first cereal/legume farmers in the Fertile...

Hello everyone! I try to write some article about eropean identity and that's because I want to ask you next question. What is the eropean identity for you: it's something that came from people's lives(daily communication,experience etc.) or identity is constructed by EU's politicians and...

Here are few options and longer descriptions: 1. Be glad that so many people love Europe and want to come here to live. Create refugee camps, give them work and education, and rip benefits from cheap labour and millions of new consumers. Let them chose their destination country. 2. Same as 1...

Five years ago I recommended that Greeks should go bankrupt and start afresh. They could have been out of recession by now, growing their economy outside of Eurozone. I'm surprise this farce is still going on. Let's see how Greeks vote today. I have a feeling they will vote for staying in...

Hello Everyone, I have 20 days to go somewhere for holidays but i have two completely different area to travel to. I am considering to have a trip in Europe starts from Spain, France, Germany and Italy and in the other hand i have South east asia Starts from Cambodia and Laos and End in...

Late Bronze Age J2a1 found 1110-1270 B.C. Ludas-Varjú-dűlő, Hungary. Kyjatice Culture. Individual BR2 Y-DNA J2a1. "The genomic stasis of the Neolithic is subsequently interrupted during the third millennium BC coinciding with the onset of the Bronze Age. Our two Bronze Age samples, BR1...

Here is a map showing the allele frequency of HLA-DR1. The maximum frequencies are observed in the Volga-Ural region, among the Mari (24%), Chuvash (18.5%), Kostroma Russians (17.5%) and South Ural Russians (16%). Subtypes There are three main subclades of DR1: - DRB1*01:01 : the vast...

Here is a map showing the allele frequency of HLA-A3, which is divided in two subtypes : A3:01 and A3:02. The former is mostly found in Europe, with lower frequencies across the Middle East, Central Asia (Uygurs), India and even isolated parts of Africa (Cameroon). The latter peaks in Georgia...

Hi Everyone ! I Am Rupok And I am very glad . Because I am a member of this site And I want to go to a country, where people are very good And girls are very friendly And beautifully And gives salary the best Thank you. I hope you will answer my question

Seven years ago I analysed the UNICEF report on children well-being in rich countries. Here is a new report for 2013, which has eight additional countries. The Netherlands still tops the ranking, followed by Scandinavian countries like before, except Denmark which fell from 3rd to 11th...

The Middle Ages are often described as a Dark Age between the advanced ancient civilisations like the Romans and the Greeks and the European Renaissance. Yet few people seem to realise that technology continued to progress about as fast as during Roman times throughout the Middle Ages. In fact...

The New Scientist reported last night a theory explaining why Europeans are generally individualists while East Asians are collectivists. According to Thomas Talhelm, a social psychologist the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, rice farming seems to have fostered collective thinking...

University rankings are conducted by various magazines, newspapers, websites, governments and academics. The three most famous are the Academic Ranking of World Universities (aka ARWU or Shanghai Ranking), the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings...

European history is strongly related to that of Asia. Numerous times in the past there was a clash of civilizations and many people lost their lives during these conflicts. Many have been referring to these events as the "barbarism" of Asia. What do you think about it? Has this contact between...

I have reorganised a bit the K=20 autosomal admixtures from Lazaridis et al. 2013 and assigned geographical regions for each component. These admixtures bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the Dodecad Project, and one could wonder if that Iosif Lazaridis could indeed be the person hidden...

Huntington in his theory specifies that the era of ideologies and conflicts between has ended now the rivalry is between the civilizations. According to him the main conflicts in the future will occur because of the differences between the cultures. Especially after the cold-war the importance...

I just came across interesting stats about homicide rate of european countries. Intentional Homicide Country Police Recorded Cases per 100,000 population Russia 10.2 Moldova 7.5 Lithuania 6.6 Estonia 5.2 Ukraine 5.0 United States 5.0 Belarus 4.9 Georgia 4.3 Albania 4.0 Montenegro 3.5...

CAF, Charities Aid Foundation issued 5th annual report about generosity of nations. I wasn't able to post the whole ranking table, so I made a short list. Here is a full report: https://www.cafonline.org/PDF/WorldGivingIndex2013_1374AWEB.pdf Countries are judged according to 3 criterias...