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Response to Boing Boing post on "Police Pad" gadgets in Georgia, from the...
Editor's Note: In response to an anonymously-sourced wisecrack we published about police corruption in former Soviet states, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has responded with a statement,...
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All is not well in Greece
A gasoline bomb explodes at riot police during a huge anti-austerity demonstration in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square February 12, 2012. Historic cinemas, cafes and shops went up in flames in...
View ArticleHow To: Pack for a European Vacation
Back in high school, I purchased an old travel guide to Europe at a library book sale. It taught me some valuable lessons about inflation and changing social expectations. But I really only used it...
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Austerity is Europe's mutual suicide-pact
Laurence Lewis's Daily Kos editorial, "The cruel stupidity that is economic austerity," is a blazing indictment of austerity as a means of recovering from recession, and it cites experts and...
View ArticleYour land, my land, island
Uninhabited Market Island in the Baltic Sea is home to an international border between Sweden and Finland that is shaped, convolutedly, like the number 2. The New York Times explains the history behind...
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Germany: Riot police clear Occupy Frankfurt (photo)
REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach German riot police carry a demonstrator fully covered in paint as police clears the camp of occupy protestors in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, May 16,...
View ArticleEarthquake and bombs in Italy: An eyewitness report from Jasmina Tesanovic
[Video Link.] A weekend of fear and mourning in Italy. Early this Sunday morning, an earthquake struck near Bologna: at least six killed (ceramic workers, and a hundred year old person), and big...
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak, featuring Pato Afortunado mit Heinrich Hund!
Support Tom the Dancing Bug and receive untold BENEFITS and PRIVILEGES by joining the brand new INNER HIVE right now! "I signed up the second I read about it. It's a lot of fun. I enjoy hearing Ruben...
View ArticleTexel, Netherlands: An island where science and culture meet
The Frisian Islands are barrier islands off the coast of the Netherlands. Between these islands and the mainland, there is an area called the Wadden Sea. This sea is only wet in some places, at some...
View ArticleEx-physicist in charge of Europe's largest economy
Did you know that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has a Ph.D. and used to do research in quantum chemistry? I did not. (Via Jennifer Ouellette)
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The Decent People: LGBT pride in the former Yugoslavia
Years ago during the reign of Milosevic in Serbia I wrote an essay called "Decent people". It was about that 80 percent of Serbian people, the classic silent majority, who lived in denial of the...
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Student Riots in Italy: a dispatch from Jasmina Tesanovic
When I myself was a protesting student, I remember vividly remembered the cold warning in the text by Pier Paolo Pasolini. He reminded us youngsters that the police we faced in the streets were also...
View ArticleMedieval Europeans knew more about the body than we think
Medieval Europe is generally known for its animosity toward actually testing things out, favoring tradition over experimentation and earning a reputation as being soundly anti-science. In particular,...
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Is this the best song from this year's Eurovision Song Contest?
The battle of the bands, featuring acts from Ireland to Israel, is underway as we speak. Embedded above is Cezar Ouatu's particularly excellent It's my life, this year's Transylvanian entry. Our...
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Sorrow in the Balkans
Sorrow never stops in the Balkans. It's the favorite topic, the inspiration, the poetic lament. It's the history. The recent flood that drowned the region, the biggest recorded since 120 years, as...
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Gorgeous time-lapse video of Europe
Andrew Walker's beautiful time-lapse clips of Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic are a real treat for desk-chair travelers like me. "Moment Abroad"
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Map of European population growth and decline
Enjoy Berliner Morgenpost's interactive graphic of where headcount is headed in Europe. Ireland, Britain and France grow as much of eastern Europe loses population. Everywhere there seems to be...
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A Europe of city-states
This neat map presents Europe not as a collection of countries but as a diagram of its largest cities; the accompanying post argues that large cities effectively transcend their host nations and will...
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Map of Europe shows the lights coming on and going off, 1993-2003
Often shared as a map of Europe at midnight from the International Space Station (or with some other cosy story) this is actually a composite produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Interactive map: 15 years of European migrant deaths
Austrian designer Moriz Büsing created this grim interactive map of migrant and refugee deaths on the way to Europe, or trying to stay in Europe; over 32,000 deaths in 15 years. (more…)
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