garfaagel

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In the map it can be clearly seen that the unemployment is higher in Wallonia than in Flanders. This is largely due to the fact that Wallonia has historically relied on its heavy industry, such as steel and coal, which has moved abroad the last decades. In fact, the Sambre and Meuse valley which was the industrial heartland in Belgium thanks to its coal resources, can be clearly seen on the map.

It is also interesting to see how the distribution of unemployment has changed throughout the years, as seen on these maps:

 
 

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More info about the map and the forest types here. The forest types are described in chapter 6.

The map does not necessarily show what kind of forest actually grows in different places, if any, but rather which forest type you could expect to find there naturally, if it would be forest. But it probably matches reasonably well with what actual forests look like, although most of Europe is of course not covered by forests.

Here's a map over forest cover in Europe:

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Map is a bit confusing since it has no data for Russia and Belarus, but there are wolves there. Here is another map with population numbers as well:

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Also, pretty infographic about wolves from the same source:

 
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Youth unemployment in Europe (landgeistdotcom.files.wordpress.com)
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English translation with Google translate:

Hopefully the Spanish did not bother you too much. I was too lazy to do a proper translation, and could not make a post with a map featuring the country "Theory" as the main image.

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[–] garfaagel 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Who the fuck made this inforgraphic?

It's from Wikipedia. Admittedly, I didn't do much fact-checking and just trusted it. But of course you can always contribute by improving the map.

 
 
[–] garfaagel 4 points 1 year ago

Cool map! I spent quite some time looking at the many details. Also interesting to see that the Chinese were so aware of world geography at the time, even if it was thanks to exchanges with Europeans.

[–] garfaagel 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cool! I had never heard about this theory for explaining color blindness.

[–] garfaagel 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You think so? My impression of the Netherlands is that the staple food is fries with mayonnaise, maybe with some broodje kroket in between. In general the diet consists of a lot of butter, white bread and sugar. To me it does not seemt surprising at all that they eat least vegetables in Europe.

[–] garfaagel 5 points 2 years ago

It has often been noticed that differences along the historical borders exist in Poland. See for example this article.

Here's another article discussing the differences, and interestingly claims that the difference between the election result in former Prussian and Russian parts of Poland is likely due to other factors.

[–] garfaagel 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's a subspecies of brown bear.

[–] garfaagel 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out. You're right. I messed up with the title. What i intended to say was that the scale was relative. But the title is corrected now.

[–] garfaagel 4 points 2 years ago

I like how the guy on the left just keeps smiling when he sees the taller ants and the tin of glue, knowing that in the end, his bread will guarantee him victory.

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