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Is Yiddish to Be Traced to Turkey?
[Thanks to Leni Silberman for originally drawing my attention to one of the media reports, and to Antonia Cavendish, Maria Soukhanova, Anna Dybo, Peter Shalen, Razib Khan, and Martin Lewis for helpful...
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Religiosity in Russia
[Thanks to Boris Denisov and Martin Lewis for helpful discussions of these issues.] A recent question from a student about just how religious Russians really are has sent me to look for statistics on...
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Turkey, Shmurkey! — A Response to Das et al. (2016)
As promised in an earlier post, I am presenting here an informal response to the article, published recently in Genome Biology and Evolution by Paul Wexler, Eran Elhaik and colleagues (henceforth, Das...
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The United States of Mind
[This post was originally published in November 2012] When I moved from upstate New York to California some five years ago, the culture shock was almost as significant as when I had moved from Russia...
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Problems with “Geography of Personality” Research
[This post was originally published in November 2012] While research on the geography of personality, such as the 2008 study by Rentfrow and colleagues, published in Perspectives on Psychological...
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The Geography of Happiness—According to Twitter
[This post was originally published in March 2013] A recent study, conducted by researchers at the University of Vermont, once again looked into the question of where happy people live. Previous...
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The Geography of Sin
[This post was originally published in February 2012] As discussed in earlier posts, abstract concepts such as personality or happiness can be mapped. A few years ago, geographers from Kansas State...
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Mapping Honesty and Property Crime
[This post was originally published in October 2013] Honesty, like other personality traits, is notoriously difficult to test, let alone map. A rather ingenious new study attempted to measure honesty...
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The Diacritics Affair
[This is a guest post, written by Roger Fernàndez from Barcelona, Spain] Can a few simple accents become the center of a controversy that occupy headlines? In Catalonia, yes. Catalan is the language of...
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Global Patterns in Health Infrastructure and Personnel Distribution
[This post was originally published in April 2013.] The recently published World Economic Forum report on global travel and tourism competitiveness contains a wealth of data that is significant beyond...
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