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Adult skills in literacy and numeracy declining or stagnating in most OECD countries

2024-12-10 /

A new OECD Survey of Adult Skills shows literacy and numeracy skills among adults have largely declined or remained stagnated over the past decade in most OECD countries.

The Survey measured the skills of around 160,000 16-65 year-olds across 31 countries. It looked at how literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills are used at work.โ€ฏIt aims to provide insight of how developing and using skills improves employment prospects and quality of life as well as boosting economic growth.

One of the findings is that only Finland and Denmark have seen significant improvements in adult literacy skills over the past decade.

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Several US National Parks are hosting stargazing events in 2023

2023-06-14 /

NY Times ยป

Brian Brettschneider’s year-long 21ยฐC road trips

2023-06-07 /
A map of Brian Brettschneider's US-Canada Year-Round 21โ„ƒ Road Trip Route

A map of Brian Brettschneider’s US-Canada Year-Round 21โ„ƒ โ€“ 22,400 km Road Trip

Alaska climate scientist Brian Brettschneider released three 21ยฐC Road Trips, that promise to keep long-distance rubber tramp warriors comfortable as they travel around North America throughout the year.

One of the year long routes hugs the coasts, a second travels up the interior of the US, and a third route crosses into Canada and up to Alaska.

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Dick Proenneke thriving alone in the wilderness of Alaska

2023-06-03 /

Dick Proenneke in “Alone in the Wilderness” is the story of Dick Proenneke living at Twin Lakes in the Alaska wilderness.

Dick retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of Twin Lakes. He filmed his adventures so he could show his relatives in the lower 48 states what life was like in Alaska, building his cabin, hunting for food, and exploring the area.

Bob Swerer has used some of the footage from Dick’s films and created 4 videos about Dick, “Alone in the Wilderness”, “Alone in the Wilderness part 2”, “Alaska, Silence and Solitude” and “The Frozen North”. They can purchase from Bob Swerer Productions at the DickProenneke.com website.

Below are some excepts from these films.


Note: Clicking the above image will load and play the video from YouTube.

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Explore! releases their list of the 35 best hikes in the world that almost anyone can do

2023-05-12 /

Explore Worldwide, an “adventure travel” agency, has put together a list of 35 of the best hikes in the world that almost anyone can do, from short jaunts you can do in less than an hour to longer, multi-day itineraries ยป

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The most populated countries in the world

2023-04-19 /

On 15 November 2022, the worldโ€™s population surpassed 8 billion people.

Earth’s population continues to explode ยป from 1 billion in 1820 to 2 billion in 1930, to 3 billion in 1960, to 4 billion in 1974, to 5 billion in 1987, to 6 billion in 1999, to 7 billion in 2012, and 8 billion in 2022.

Following are the 50 most populated countries using the latest figures available ยป

  1. India ยป 1,425,000,000 (April 2023)
  2. China ยป 1,413,143,000
  3. United States ยป 339,665,000
  4. Indonesia ยป 279,476,000
  5. Pakistan ยป 247,654,000
  6. Nigeria ยป 230,843,000
  7. Brazil ยป 218,690,000
  8. Bangladesh ยป 167,184,000
  9. Russia ยป 141,699,000
  10. Mexico ยป 129,876,000
  11. Japan ยป 123,719,000
  12. Ethiopia ยป 116,463,000
  13. Philippines ยป 116,434,000
  14. Democratic Republic of the Congo ยป 111,860,000
  15. Egypt ยป 109,547,000
  16. Vietnam ยป 104,799,000
  17. Iran ยป 87,591,000
  18. Germany ยป 84,220,000
  19. Turkiye ยป 83,594,000
  20. Thailand ยป 69,795,000
  21. France ยป 68,522,000
  22. United Kingdom ยป 68,139,000
  23. Tanzania ยป 65,643,000
  24. Italy ยป 61,022,000
  25. South Africa ยป 58,048,000
  26. Myanmarย ยป 57,970,000
  27. Kenya ยป 57,052,000
  28. South Korea ยป 51,967,000
  29. Colombia ยป 49,337,000
  30. Sudan ยป 49,18,000
  31. Uganda ยป 47,730,000
  32. Spain ยป 47,223,000
  33. Argentina ยป 46,622,000
  34. Algeria ยป 44,758,000
  35. Ukraine ยป 43,306,000
  36. Iraq ยป 41,266,000
  37. Afghanistan ยป 39,232,000
  38. Canada ยป 38,517,000
  39. Poland ยป 37,992,000
  40. Morocco ยป 37,067,000
  41. Angola ยป 35,981,000
  42. Saudi Arabia ยป 35,940,000
  43. Malaysia ยป 34,220,000
  44. Ghana ยป 33,846,000
  45. Mozambique ยป 32,514,000
  46. Peru ยป 32,440,000
  47. Yemen ยป 31,566,000
  48. Uzbekistan ยป 31,361,000
  49. Nepal ยป 30,899,000
  50. Venezuela ยป 30,518,000
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