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Do you like to read? Would you like some great book recommendations? Then check out Shepherd.com: here are my book recommendations, and there are recommendations by other book authors as well. Happy reading! https://shepherd.com/best-books/how-human...

[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 just tourism. Several data sets pertain to health...

[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 this northeast Spain region, whose capital is Barcelona...

[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 in an unusual way. Instead of using questionnaires...

[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 University tried to map the spatial distribution of...