Archive for January, 2010

Tricky Questions

In: Culture Humor

28 Jan 2010

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Safe Sex?

In: Culture Science

28 Jan 2010

Some interesting data on global sexual practices and disease.

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Top and bottom 10 profits/losses.

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Powerful summary from the Harvard Business Review (hardcopy apparently) via The Big Picture.

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Progress made on 25 promises made during the election. Click on a promise to see details and related articles at the bottom. Nice work by the Washington Post.

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Politics

In: Humor Politics

26 Jan 2010

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Recession status and peak to trough GDP. Updated 1/26/10.

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GDP, peak to trough.

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Top political donors 1989-2010. It’s just going to get worse. (via)

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Magnitude 7.0 and larger per year. More than I would have thought.

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A nice interactive display of rankings based on UNDP data.  (via VizWorld)

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Take a look at unemployment benefit funds state-by-state. Includes future projections. (via)

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Accurate and hilarious. (via DataViz)

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By state, through December 09. Click on a state to compare it to the national average.

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