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Bolivia has a navy. In and of itself, this may not seem noteworthy. But a map will reveal why it is peculiar: Bolivia is landlocked...
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...Adam Gazzaley of the University of California, San Francisco, recruited two groups of subjects--one ages 19 to 30 and the other 60 to 77--and scanned their brains while they were looking at pictures of human faces, then again when they were viewing landscapes. This allowed him to map out where in the brain they were taking in these images. Then he put the volunteers back in the scanner and told them that he was going to show them four pictures simultaneously--two of faces, two of scenery--and that he wanted them to focus only on the faces...
...cold-war continent mutated into much more deadly struggles between criminally financed militias over minerals. Nowhere was this more clear than in the awful war in the Democratic Republic of Congo that broke out in 1998. In large measure, the war was driven by complex criminal conspiracies. A map of the main zones of conflict between the various armies and militias coincides with a map of the concentration of the D.R.C.'s natural resources. Militias pillaged anything they could find, be it timber, gorillas, copper, diamonds or a little known metallic ore called coltan. When refined as a heat-resistant...