Diamond Production and the ipod Generation

A story about diamond production from the Wall Street Journal.

Pirates versus Weapons Dealers

The Somali pirates that captured the freighter Faina didn't know the ship was full of tanks. They also were unaware that by hijacking the vessel, they had ruined an international weapons deal that may have been illegally sending arms to Sudan.

Read more here.

Clips shown in lecture on illicit drugs

Drug flow to the UK

Market price of heroin

Bolivia clip

Laos clip

Meth clip

Trade in Human Fat

Gangs killed victims to extract their fat and sell it as anti-wrinkle treatment.

Some interesting representations of the world

Strange Maps web site

Africa's first narco-state

From the Los Angeles Times:
Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine's Traffick Hub

And from the Guardian (UK newspaper):
How a tiny West African country became the world's first narco-state

The video clips we saw in class, plus more.

Africa's Children: The Struggles of Youth

Evidence that social norms can change in interesting ways.

Women are lobbying to legalize polygamy in Siberia. There is also a link in the article to a longer story about this which you should look at.