Guess The Map

I think pet passports were introduced at about that time? That would make sense as part of an international push to eradicate it.

Interesting. My doctor described us as free of terrestrial rabies, which is a cool way of saying bats. Apparently no strain of the rabies virus is older than 1500 years. It's originally from bats and shifted to foxes, dogs, skunks etc, which means it's being again contained to the original hosts. And apparently the vaccine served as a base for one of the Covid vaccines, described as a "deactivated rabies-virus Covid vaccine". Which I guess is why you hire people for marketing after scientists do their job.

https://i.imgur.com/FQQnZWE.png

Light pollution is too obvious probably?

hmm. europe, japan, south korea all lit up. usa and mexico around the same. cuba and north korea completely dark. i'm thinking it's some cultural thing like soccer players.

honestly the only thing that makes sense is population density

adam t. is on the right track

Is it misleading that it looks like a map of might lights, then, if it's a cultural thing?

Dhaka isn't lit up, though it might be covered by the country label

The Canary Islands are lit up

South Korea, Java, New Zealand are a couple of locations that seem more lit up than expected imho

Mauritius & Réunion, east of Madagaskar, too

South Korea is a hotspot, is it something like mobile phone use?

now pondering what south korea and southeast england have in common

does south korea have Nando's? I know Mauritus has like the most per capita in the world (don't ask how I know)

afaik continental Europe is Nando-less?

I see that Coca-Cola is banned in Cuba and North Korea -- is it Coke sales?

on second thought, the US would be the brightest.

bicycle usage

I will accept that as correct. It is a heat map of cycling activities recorded online on the most popular global app.

(Russia and some other countries are not rendered/displayed due to political reasons)

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