Claerbout's political curiosities

• Regarding corruption, using 2000 data from Transparancy International, . I plotted anticorruption versus latitude. in ascii in html. Actually, my more recent plot of transparancy versus wealth shows a much more convincing correlation than transparany versus latitude. But does wealth cause transparancy or does transparancy cause wealth? Probably neither. I've discovered the Lynn and VanHannon IQ data for countries. I should make some plots to try to figure out which is more tightly bound, anticorruption and IQ, or anticorruption and wealth. Here's a guy who worked out something even more ambitious.
• My mis-spent youth, Stockholm to Singapore on a Vespa motorscooter.
• Some books I've read
• World oil future
• Progress and its sustainability, John McCarthy
• The Big Crunch (in academia), David Goodstein
• Who will feed China?, Lester Brown -->
• IQ test
• The Bell Curve (IQ)
• The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg [See any book vendor]