Millions of people volunteer around the world helping others that get into trouble. The following is a documentary about the work of The German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS). This society of rescuers help rescue people in the North and Baltic seas battling dangerous waves and weather day and night. Their unique boats are purpose-built for their missions.
Click to enlarge
Source: WELT Documentary via YouTube
The Dogu Express is an overnight train that travels between Anakara and Kars in Turkey covering a distance of 1,310 km. The below video is an informative world-class documentary on this train from German broadcaster DW. Though the service is currently suspended this train trip should be on the bucket list of every train enthusiast.
Click to enlarge
Source: DW Documentary via YouTube
Innovation is key to a thriving economy. In today’s globalized world, innovation differentiates winners from losers. Technological innovation is especially important since technology drives the most successful economies. For example, Alphabet(GOOG), Apple(AAPL), Facebook(FB), Amazon(AMZN), Netflix(NFLX), etc. are all highly respected and successful tech powerhouses. One thing that is common to these firms is constant innovation. With that said, new technologies are initially expensive and customers have a low rate of adoption. As prices plummet over the years, the adoption rate by households soars. History is full of many examples proving this theory. Commercial airline travel was very expensive when it was invented. Nowadays it is cheap and most people can easily travel to long distances with discount air fares.
Recently I came across an interesting article on innovation at Aberdeen Standard. From the article:
As Figure 2 highlights, production costs for some key new technologies have reduced significantly over the past 50 years. Note the relatively flat lines for autos and traditional sources of energy, as compared to the sharp reductions in technological components and DNA sequencing. The outcome as the subsequent chart shows, has been that adoption rates of new technologies have accelerated over the past 120 years.
Click to enlarge
Source: An era of exponential innovation, Aberdeen Standard Investments
Disclosure: No Positions
The World’s Most Dangerous Roads is a multi-part series from French channel Free Documentary. Each episode takes the viewer through some of the most dangerous roads in a country – from Russia to Argentina to many countries in Africa. In the following video, covers the dangerous roads in Argentina. It shows the power of human spirit to survive in harsh environments from driving on dangerous high-altitude roads in the Andes to crossing flooded plains delivering milk. The narrator does a great job as well.
Click to enlarge
Source: Free Documentary via YouTube
Zanzibar is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean and are part of Tanzania. The islands are famous for spices and in recent years tourism has become a booming industry. Though the pandemic was disastrous to most tourism-based economies, as global travel restarts Zanzibar should receive thousands of tourists as well. There are plenty of beaches and great history, culture to explore according to the below video from CoolVision.
Click to enlarge
Source: CoolVision via YouTube
