KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

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  • What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?

    CNN is doing an Eye on Kazakhstan this month. Some of the reports are pretty good. This quiz was way too easy: What Do You Know About Kazakhstan? I got 10 out of 10, with only one question I wasn’t completely sure about.

  • Compare the US to Kazakhstan

    A fun little tool I stumbled on, If It Were My Home lets you compare two countries based on some basic statistics like GDP per capita, infant mortality rate, and oil and energy consumption. What makes it cool is that it gives the results in individual terms. For example, comparing Kazakhstan to the US, the […]

  • Kazakhstan Widget

    Wolfram Alpha, the statistician’s Google, has a new feature. You can build widgets that basically take Wolfram Alpha searches and allow users to change selected variables. I was playing around with it and came up with this simple example. Enter the information you want and the year. Clicking the x at on the upper right […]