When I was at school, I learned that blood type O+ was the most common one and AB- the rarest one. Wikipedia has a good article about this information with a breakdown by country.

O+ and A+ are the most common ones and AB- is the least common.

Today, an Irish friend at work shared a very interesting news article describing how the German passport was the most convenient one to travel around the world. There is a visa restriction index that classifies the passports based on the number of countries and territories that a holder can visit visa-free. Germany indeed has the highest score, followed closely by many other European countries. Here is a map of this index worldwide:

Last Thursday Eurostat published the inflation data for January 2016. Even if those numbers are definitely better than the hyperinflation happening in other regions of the world (cough ... Venezuela), there is always the risk of deflation:

Now it's remarkable how the highest rate in Europe was in Norway, a pretty expensive country already. I'm sorry for my Norwegian friends.

This weekend I wanted to do a small city break and I realised visiting Prague by train was relatively easy (it's only 4.5h by direct train). I went there, met and chatted with a Czech friend, and spent the rest of my visit walking around and taking pictures. One of the most interesting ones I was able to get shows a street performer making huge soap bubbles. The colorful bubbles make a nice contrast with the people staring and walking around.

The last episode of the excellent show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver dealt with a very contentious issue in the US: abortion laws. I really like the approach he took on this matter, acknowledging there are different positions on this topic, but hammering the "hypocritical" laws that, under the umbrella of protecting "women's health", create barriers for people who need this medical procedure and unfortunately don't have the money to go somewhere else.

The next map shows the US states that had enacted laws to force women requiring an abortion to see an ultrasound of the unwanted pregnancy:

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