{"id":182,"date":"2014-02-15T19:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T09:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=182"},"modified":"2014-02-15T19:15:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T09:15:49","slug":"this-week-i-learned-peoples-of-the-earth-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2014\/02\/this-week-i-learned-peoples-of-the-earth-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned – Peoples of the Earth Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

And we’re back! Some great stories have come through since my last update:<\/p>\n

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  1. Japan’s ageing society is well known — this is how it copes<\/a>. Great look at some of the individuals behind the numbers, from a retired headmaster (72) to a pair of doctors (66 and 71).<\/li>\n
  2. Researchers have compiled an “atlas” of genetic intermingling between peoples all over the Earth. Here is a short, sweet overview<\/a>; here is a longer article<\/a>. Here is the atlas itself<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. “More mariners have been abandoned by their employers than taken hostage by Somali pirates<\/a>.”<\/li>\n
  4. A fascinating portrait of “China’s worst diplomat”<\/a>, a Qing-era official who managed to botch every job he held.<\/li>\n
  5. Two<\/a> takes<\/a> on the English language, with its gloriously syncretistic attitude to foreign words.<\/li>\n
  6. A slice of life: 24 hours at a British petrol station<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. And finally, here is the retired airliner converted to a restaurant in Ghana<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    And we’re back! Some great stories have come through since my last update:   Japan’s ageing society is well known — this is how it copes. Great look at some of the individuals behind the numbers, from a retired headmaster … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}