BuzzFeed has pulled together 40 of the most powerful photos ever taken. Here are four of them:
Monthly Archives: June 2012
The most popular media outlets by state – where is Fox News/NPR popular?
Forbes and Bitly pulled together a data set highlighting the most read newspapers by state. In some places certain media is read more than others. Can you guess where NPR is the most popular, or where Fox News is read the most? The Media Map: Who’s reading what and where News sources read and …
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Open position – Data Artist – see a story from chaos and communicate it visually
Bitly is seeking a Data Artist: We have a lot of data. Unique, hilarious, important data. We’re looking for a talented designer to work with our data science team to tell the stories in our data in a beautiful and witty way. Our ideal collaborator can see a story from chaos and communicate it visually, and has experience creating …
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Last weekend, half of Germany was running on solar power
Here’s how they did it, and how we can too This is what can happen when citizens and government agree that it’s worth spending a bit more for clean, carbon-free power: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – through the …
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Calvin and Hobbes – quotes and life lessons
On life’s constant little limitations Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help. On the cruel reality of commercial art Hobbes: Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them. On the falling of sparrows (or providence’s lack of a timetable) Calvin: …
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Stereotypes in Europe – hardest working, most corrupt
Among the usual questions about attitudes to the euro and the European Union, people in eight nations (Britain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain) were asked which country in the European Union is the hardest-working. The Greeks ignored the obvious answer (Germany) and instead nominated themselves. (The other seven nations all …
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The top 10 islands of Europe
The perfect list of European Islands ranked according to 8 factors. Each island is worthy of investigation for many of them are unknown to Americans and yet so full of history. Photos of my favorite three:
Israeli government bans ultra-thin models and photoshop in advertisements
On Monday, March 19, the Israeli parliament passed legislation ubiquitously known in the country as the Photoshop laws. The new regulations on the fashion and advertising industry ban underweight models as determined by Body Mass Index and regulate Photoshop usage in media and advertising. Abroad, the laws have opened new discussion on a government’s right …
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82% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Queen Elizabeth II
As Britain prepares to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th year on the throne, the sovereign’s popularity in the United States is at a 15-year high — 82% of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the queen in a CNN/ORC poll released Friday. That’s a 35-point jump from 1997, when her favorable rating stood …
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Apple turns over its inventory once every 5 days!
Apple turns over its inventory once every five days. That’s part of why a new report from the technology research firm, Gartner, ranked Apple’s supply chain the best in the world. And it’s pretty amazing when you think about it. This is a company that sells hundreds of millions of hardware gadgets all over the …
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