January 3rd, 2009

January Discoveries

  • Learn about the world in a whole new way. Gapminder lets you pick countries, topics, and timelines to weave a visual history. Play around, explore a country, a region, a hemisphere. Time will pass quickly, we know.
  • Global warming may create a new ice free route though the arctic which would cut in half the shipping distance between Japan and Europe.
  • We may be slowly weening ourselves off oil but in the coming years fresh water will increasingly be at the forefront of world politics. Here is an online atlas of where the freshwater aquifers are thought to be.
  • What happens when a mathematics professor gets elected as mayor of one of South America’s most dysfunctional cities? Mimes mocking criminals and Knighted Taxi drivers. And the zaniest thing of all is that it actually worked!
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