Wikipedia has an interesting article called Where to be Born Index where they discuss an article published by the economist about the classification of countries based on the criteria determining which country provides the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead.

Not surprising, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries are on top of the list, joined by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore.

Last week an anesthesiologist friend of mine was on TV discussing how in the US opioid abuse has created a huge crisis. I was searching the web for statistics about this subject and I found a 2017 report published by the United Nations Office on drugs and crime that shows that the US indeed has the highest mortality rate related to drugs by far. Those deaths are related mainly to opioids, so the public discussion about this subject is definitely worth it.

Yesterday before I boarded the plane, I noticed the sky was just beautiful with an amazing summer sunset. I started to climb the stairs and just before I entered the aircraft I was able to snap this quick shot through a narrow gap in the door. Sometimes the light, time, season and weather are perfect for a picture like this.

Some weeks ago when I finished working, I was about to leave the building and I saw in the wall a sheet of paper with information about a vue.js meetup here in Berlin. I thought I had never heard about this vue.js and the more I read, the more interested I became in this front-end javascript framework.

Google Search trends show vue.js has been the most popular framework in the last 12 months. Vue.js is self-described as "a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Unlike other monolithic frameworks, Vue is designed from the ground up to be incrementally adoptable". I gave it a go and it's quite interesting.

Currently there is a heat wave named Lucifer that's bringing scorching hot temperatures to southern and central europe. Maybe that's the reason why Eurostat published some days ago statistics about the largest producers of Ice cream in the continent. It's not surprising that the "Gelato" country is on top of the list, but I was surprised to learn Germany was the second one in the rankings.

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