One of the most interesting parts of the Basel Fasnacht is the big lanterns that participate in the parade on Monday morning. On Tuesday they were exposed in Munsterplatz and this year there were a lot of political motifs related to politics and far-right trends. One of the most descriptive ones was this one.

Eurostats has an interesting dataset with the time spent exercising per country in Europe. It's not surprising that the countries that exercise 2.5h or more are the Scandinavian countries: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Way to go Scandinavia!

Wikipedia provides an article containing a list of the top 100 sites in the world in terms of traffic, using Alexa and SimilarWeb as sources. The chart above shows the count of site types based on that list, and Search Engines is the top category by far. Now, it's interesting to see how this finding is due to the massive popularity of Google around the world: Its localized version in all these countries makes it to the top 100 list:

The USA is indeed a country of immigrants. In 2013, 41M people out of the total 316M population were foreign born, coming from all over the world. The top countries from that list are Mexico, China, India, Philippines, and Vietnam, but it's a true multinational and multicultural society that should be embraced!

Sometimes you look out the window and the view is so nice that it doesn't look like a normal window but rather as a picture that was presented to you instead. That was the case today.

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