Europe

The big fluenza measurement

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This week started in different European countries a specific experiment, where the number of people who're having the flue are measured. This way, the creators of the big fluenza measurement hope to chart the progress of the flue in these European countries.

I'm having questions though with the scientific validity of such a test : picturing the spreading of the flue in this way can only be valid if there's not much mobility between different parts of the regions, and in Belgium with its large number of commuting people, it is clearly not the case.

Euro coins

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Since 2002, the Europe countries switched to a common currency. All Euro coins have a national imprinted side, different from country to country. A nice thing about all those common coins, is that after a certain period, coins from one European country start to appear in the other; this process is called Eurodiffusion. Identification of a foreign Euro coin is now possible thanks to the Euro coin site.