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Little Uruguay: Big Scholastic Expectations
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes.
• February 26, 2023
• 3,700 Words • 151 Comments • Reply
I am in favour of countries, in the same way that I am in favour of houses having lockable front doors. Countries have good precedents: the first biological cell seen by Robert Hook in 1665 seemed to him like the small cellular rooms monks lived in. The cell is the motor of life, and it... Read More
Edible Survivors
• February 10, 2023
• 3,900 Words • 113 Comments • Reply
Last night I went to hear some old guys talking about having eaten their friends. I had met one of them, but it was the first time I had seen the others in the flesh, and flesh has a big part to play in this story. The 1972 plane crash in the Andes of a... Read More
Little Uruguay, Not Many Dead
• May 20, 2020
• 1,300 Words • 220 Comments • Reply
Uruguay is a small country on the eastern coast of South America between Argentina and Brazil. Mostly European in demographics, it was long considered the Switzerland of South America because, fearful of the usual local tendency towards dictatorship, it shared power in a plural executive, was early in separating Church and State, in giving votes... Read More
Daddy, Don't Speed
• January 30, 2020
• 1,000 Words • 41 Comments • Reply
I barely noticed the first crash. Driving the new hire car from the airport, the rain was pouring down on the highway, spray everywhere, a high risk of aquaplaning, and we were still on the outskirts of town, with traffic lights, cross-roads, bus stops, shops and lots of local motorbikes and pedestrians moving along and... Read More
Uruguay, White, Small, and Happy
• February 17, 2016
• 500 Words • 27 Comments • Reply
Back in 2009, in one of my online diaries, I wrote about what I called “happy-in-obscurity” countries — nations, that is, that don’t generate much news, where nothing much happens, but where life is peaceful and modestly prosperous, and citizens have a good shot at ordinary, unsensational happiness. I cited New Zealand, Taiwan, and Finland... Read More
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The evidence is clear — but often ignored
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