To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an "important" (The Wall Street Journal) and "penetrating historical and political study" (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan's The Revenge of Geography.
In the German fairy tale "The Six Servants," a young man is assisted by six servants with strange superpowers. One servant is able to drink up the whole Red Sea, and later eat 300 fat oxen (hair, bones, and all) in a single sitting, along with 300 casks of wine. #FairyTaleTuesday
Kidding aside, every tool has its own #superpowers and #shortcomings, and I know that Power BI can do certain things that Tableau can't do, but I'm also sure that the reverse is true as well.
Erin and I frequently talk about the #ToolsAndTechniques we use at work during our lunches and evening walks, and I'm genuinely looking forward to #learning more about #TheDarkSide from her, as we continue honing each other's minds like iron sharpening iron. ⚔️
The #US should have shamed, when honor and reputation still meant something in politics, the other non-signatory countries into signing. Instead:
"Major provisions of the ASPA 👉blocked U.S. funding of the ICC👈 and required the U.S. "to enter into agreements with all ICC signatory states 👉to shield American citizens..."
"...abroad from ICC jurisdiction👈, under the auspices of Article 98 of the Rome Statute," which bars the ICC "from prosecuting individuals located on the territory of an ICC member …"
THIS was a weakness by the #US' design...which now backfires.
Superpowers
What is a superpower that could be plausible for a human to have, being supported by science?