The World’s Biggest Social Studies Assignment with Paul Barbato
4/16/202624 min
As a young adult, Paul "Barbs" Barbato gave himself perhaps the world's biggest social studies assignment: make a profile of every single one of the 193 UN-recognized countries in the world. Ten years later, he finally finished.
Check out Paul’s project – and what he’s up to next – on YouTube @GeographyNow.
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Kelly McEvers· Host0:44
[gentle music] I'm Kelly McEver, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. In the early 2000s, Paul Barbato had a dream. He really, really wanted to be a host on the TV show Globe Trekkers. [upbeat music] If you don't know it, it's a British show that was inspired by the Lonely Planet guidebooks. In each episode, the host goes around with a camera and crew to a different place in the world and just kind of gets immersed in the food, and the sights, and the sounds, and the culture. Kind of like an earlier British version of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. So yeah, basically a dream job, and turns out,