A new study visualizes the effects of drug use on your brain using SPECT scans. Interesting — though the footnote “colors do not have significant meaning” dilutes the impact quite a bit.
Still, it’s an improvement over what we were taught in the 80s:
In: Food Global Economy
22 Aug 2010In: Food Global Economy Maps
18 Aug 2010Forget GDP, China now drinks more beer than either the US or Europe, and is growing by 10 percent a year.
Commodity prices are on the rise again. The Economist picked a pretty recent base year for this graph of wheat, orange juice, and coffee prices – a longer trend would have shown the big ups and downs of the past few years.
Asia remains the cheapest place to enjoy a burger. China’s recent decision to increase the “flexibility” of the yuan has not made much difference yet. A Big Mac costs $1.95 in China at current exchange rates, against $3.73 in America. [...] In other words the yuan is undervalued by 48%.
A contest from Good magazine produced a number of different designs. The winner will be announced next week.
A collection of interactives from the FT:
Drill down maps of each region:
Grape varieties, and production stats:
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