Tag Archives: Asia

China will have the world’s largest economy in 2020

Posted on January 14, 2019 by

At least, according to a report by Standard Charter Bank as reported by Big Think: The Standard Chartered Bank, a British multinational banking and financial services company, recently issued a report to clients outlining projections about the world economy up … Continue reading →

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Daily chart: March of the middle class | The Economist

Posted on June 5, 2014 by

Meant to share this last week, since it tied into my post about the state of our civilization, and the difficulty of keeping the broad sweeps of history in sight, but it fell between the cracks until now.  The world is … Continue reading →

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Neanderthals were not inferior to modern humans, says CU-Boulder study

Posted on April 30, 2014 by

Neanderthals thrived in a large swath of Europe and Asia between about 350,000 and 40,000 years ago. They disappeared after our ancestors, a group referred to as “anatomically modern humans,” crossed into Europe from Africa. In the past, some researchers … Continue reading →

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