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What the World Would Look Like If Countries Were As Big As Their Online Populations
The Internet we each see every day is an infinitesimally tiny sliver of the whole—the parts we have curated for ourselves, the parts our network of friends and family sends to us, and the sites that we have made parts of our routines.
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Death of a Sunlike Star: How It Will Destroy Earth (Infographic)
Sunlike stars eventually become a compact body called a white dwarf, destroying its planets in the process.
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How the Cloud has Changed Business
The cloud is disrupting the business landscape by increasing mobility and changing the workforce. Automatic updates offered through the cloud are given at a remarkable speed. Between January 2011 and September 2012, Amazon Web Services alone launched 130 plus updates, or one system update every five days. For the user, that means no more waiting for next edition fixes.
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Pot Smokers: why are they skinny (infographic)
New research suggests people who smoke marijuana are skinnier than those who abstain.
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The amazing history of the Nobel Prize, told in maps and charts
The United States added three more Nobel laureates to its roster on Monday, all in economics, bringing the national total to an astounding 347 in the prize's history. That's the most of any country in the world, by far: next-highest ranked is Britain with 120 laureates.
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What Are the Most Mentioned Brands in Jay Z’s Songs?
The results are telling. Jay Z’s most mentioned brand is Mercedes Benz, though he also holds a candle for Lexuses, Maybachs, BMWs, Bentleys, Range Rovers, and Porsches (in that order).
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Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics
Near the end of 1861, with the American Union crumbling, President Abraham Lincoln became obsessed with an unusual document. Nearly three feet in length, it appeared at first to be a map of the southern states. But it was covered with finely rendered shading, with the darkness of each county reflecting the number of slaves who lived there. South Carolina, the first to secede from the Union, featured a particularly dark coastline.
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Which Celebrities Take the Most Selfies?
Celebrities have adopted selfies as a way to keep fans updated through social media -- but which stars post them the most?
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What Each Country Leads the World In
Doghouse Diaries has created a funny and informative world map that shows “What Each Country Leads The World In.” According to the map, Japan leads the world in robots, and the United States leads in Nobel laureates and people getting killed by lawnmowers.
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Where the world's top 100,000 websites are hosted (infographic)
The U.S. hosts nearly half of the world’s 100,000 most-visited websites, but do you know which city leads the pack? That’d be Houston, Texas, according to host information company HostCabi, which whipped up an infographic on the world’s most popular websites. Houston is home to nearly 4,000 of the world’s most highly trafficked sites — or their data, at least — followed by Dallas, another Texas city that hosts just shy of 3,000.
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A Flowchart For Deciding If Your Halloween Costume Is Racist
CollegeHumor has created a humorous and useful flowchart for determining whether or not your Halloween costume is racist.
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The 10 Biggest Brands on YouTube
Red Bull, the company that live streamed Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking space jump, is not surprisingly YouTube's biggest brand, with nearly 3 million subscribers. Behind the energy drink's lead are a slew of tech companies, including PlayStation, Rockstar Games, Apple, GoPro Camera and Rovio.
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Infographic: Is Closing Gitmo a Security Risk or Wise Move?
As Al Qaeda suspect Abu Anas Al-Libi, who was captured recently in Libya, awaits trial before a New York federal court, military commissions for five of the U.S. military’s most high-value detainees drag on at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been plagued by hunger strikes and allegations that officials ignored torture complaints. Given this, should a prison that President Obama said is “no longer necessary to keep America safe” remain open?
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Gobble Tov! Happy Thanksgivukkah!
Get excited! It's almost time for Thanksgivukkah! This year, the Hebrew and U.S. calendars overlap so that American Thanksgiving and Hanukkah fall on the same day.
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Graphene – The rise of the super material (Infographic)
It’s going to change our future & bend our smartphones. With Graphene, possibilities are endless. Lighter aircraft, faster internet, longer lasting batteries, bendy screens & the potential for invisibility. Put your hands together for the game changer.
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The Most Popular Books of All Time
This is a visualisation of data on the most popular books every written. It includes number of editions, number of translations and units sold.
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STEM Jobs Infographic: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
a breakdown of the current and future outlook for STEM jobs. Bright futures for qualified STEM workers predicted.
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The tablet memory mark-up scandal
It costs tablet manufacturers such as Apple less than £6 to add an extra 16GB of tablet memory. But they’ll charge you as much as £80 for the privilege. Which? research has uncovered outrageous pricing mark-ups in the tablet industry. If you buy a tablet with extra space for storing your apps and files, you could pay up to £80 for a piece of extra storage that costs manufacturers less than £6 at market prices.
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Juicing Is Terrible, But Juice Is Great
Today Slate's Katy Waldman wrote a great post taking down the juice cleanse. She said drinking nothing but raw fruit and vegetable juice for several days on end, while touted as healthy, will leave you starving and unhappy. Not to mention everyone who does it acts elitist. But it's important to clarify that it's not drinking juice that leaves you miserable — it's drinking only juice.
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If The World Were A Village Of 100 People (20 Infographics)
Toby Ng, a Hong Kong based designer takes us on a tour of a scaled down world; what if the world were a village of 100 people?
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