Kosovo declared independence yesterday and I was watching wikipedia getting updated while everything happened. Today I looked at the page for Kosovo again, this time noticing that a flag was added.
Seeing the stars on the blue background I was reminded of a lecture given at Pop!Tech by a guy named Juan Enriquez. He talked about how countries appear and disappear and change in size all the time. The whole talk is really consciousness raising so go watch it if you have the time (its about 30 minutes).
Of course watching a lecture with historical data providing evidence for a trendline is one thing, seeing it in action is quite another.
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