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Income Inequality in the US
Thankfully, our elected representatives have saved the day. They have said NO to asking that the wealthy pay their fair share for government services. They have said NO to government enslavement of the...
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Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
As if to say that race doesn’t matter in the US, the New York Times, using block level Census data, has come up with a sweet online app to explore the distribution of racial groups in the United...
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Dr. Louise Reiss, RIP
It what was a landmark triumph of science over warfare, Dr. Louise Reiss single-handedly put an end to nuclear testing in the United States in 1959. Collecting more than 300,000 baby teeth from the St....
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African Conflict and the Murdock Map of Ethnic Boundaries
I would like to turn something like this into a publishable paper. If there is anyone who would wish to collaborate, please feel free to write me. In 1959, the renowned American anthropologist, George...
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Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Reporting, April 1, 2011
Reported Dead and Missing as of April 1, 2011As of April 1st, nearly three weeks after the incredible calamity that has stricken the north east region of Japan, the numbers of dead and missing continue...
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Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Reporting April 7, 2011
UPDATE: News just came that a magnitude 7.4 earthquake just hit Miyagi Prefecture at 10:32 EST. As of today, April 7, 2011, the numbers of confirmed dead continue to gradually rise though the number of...
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Japan Earthquake Reporting April 21, 2011
Numbers of confirmed dead continue to increase. Numbers of reported missing have been decreasing in Iwate and Fukushima prefectures but are steadily increasing in Miyagi. For the first time since the...
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2011 Human Trafficking Report
The 2011 Department of Justice Human Trafficking Report has recently been released. It provides country by country profiles of human trafficking and slavery for every country on the planet, and ranks...
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The American Empire
Number of US Military Deployed Around the World, by CountryOn this Fourth of July, while everyone celebrates the past struggle for independence from Britain, let us not forget the extent of US...
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Food Week Post 2: How a Few Guys on Wall Street Control the Price of Food
Worldwide Price of FoodAnyone who has been to a grocery store in the past 2 years can tell you that food prices have increased. Intuitively, one would think that a few key factors have contributed to...
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A map of poor livestock owners
This map (from “Mapping of poverty and likely zoonoses hotspots”) is pretty eye-opening. Looking at this, I’m thinking that the next big disease event will most certainly come out of India. Note that...
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Is malaria prevalence really declining?
Malaria study areas. Note the non presence of the DRC and Angola.. along with all of the other areas that are missing. Do we really know what’s going on with malaria?The development community (and the...
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US Bombing of Laos: 1965 -1973: I was there first
Actually, I was an infant, but as an adult, I wrote a blog post and made a cool video of the locations and magnitude of bomb drops in Laos from 1965-1973. Now, Jerry Redfern & Karen Coates have...
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The famous “aho/baka” map of Japan.
Japan, despite the refined image it traditionally likes to present to the world, has no shortage of words with which to call people stupid. These words are mostly regional and the uses and nuances of...
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(Mostly) Vindicated: Euclidean measures of distance are just as good as high...
In my seminal paper, “Distance to health services influences insecticide-treated net possession and use among six to 59 month-old children in Malawi,” I indicated that Euclidean (straight line)...
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The Jigger flea: a neglected scourge
Jigger infestation of the hands. I picked the least awful picture I could find. Note the deformity of the hands. This person has likely been suffering from infections since childhood.I just learned...
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Snake Bites in Kwale, Kenya: Into the Field
We just spent the day driving around Kwale looking for snakes, and/or people who had been bitten by snakes. As the last post showed, snakebites are a persistent problem along the Kenyan Coast, with...
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Kenya 2017 Election Violence: Some Data Analysis
I’m getting used to the new version of ArcGIS (which is a vast improvement!) and gave it a test run on some data from the ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project) database, specifically...
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Mapmaking with ggmap
I am always looking for free alternatives to ArcGIS for making pretty maps. R is great for graphics and the new-to-me ggmap package is no exception. I’m working with some data from Botswana for a...
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New publication: Environmental and Household-Based Spatial Risks for...
New publication! I started working on this cool project on tungiasis (jiggers) with colleagues in Kenya and Japan way back in 2014. Today, I am happy to say that after much ado our work has finally...
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