If you’re a Christian living in North America, you believe what you do because your ancestors either were, or were conquered by the Romans.
If you’re a Christian living in North America, you believe what you do because your ancestors either were, or were conquered by the Romans.
Over the next hundred years, roughly half of the worlds 7,000 languages are expected to die out.
(Source: forevergeek.com)
Two jobs that will always exist: engineers and accountants.
I can’t help but think that if this were in red instead of blue it would have a much more ominous vibe.
Tipping is necessary, but perhaps even more importantly, be respectful. Not just to servers, to everyone.
Hypothetical Situation: A physics student takes a job as a server to pay their way through college. This particularly gifted future-physicist gets shit on day after day by rude customers and develops a deep hatred for humanity. Fast forward twenty years. The now successful physicist develops a new technology and builds a doom’s day bomb. Thanks to his deep resentment for humanity, he flips the switch, killing us all. Moral of the story: don’t be a dick.
According to this, I’m extremely worldly.
Lots of interesting information about refugees worldwide and today’s headline you will never read in mainstream news: “10% of the world’s refugees are given asylum by Iran.” I’m not trying to make a statement with that, I just thought it was some weird math.
The Internet of Things. Way more ‘stuff’ is connected to the world wide web than there are people on the planet - this simple infographic illustrates what that means in general terms and through specific examples.
Behind the scenes with one of the world’s most famous, inspiring and enlightening lecturers who combines public data with critical analysis and beautiful presentation.
Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four (by BBC)
World map of social networks shows you the other side of things - Facebook dominates, to be sure, but it only tells one story line of many. Kind of crass presentation, but it gets the point across.
“I made a diagram about my crocheting in the last 3 Month.
You can see:
1. how long I crocheted on each day and how long each item was crocheted
2. how long each item was on etsy and on what day it was sold
3. in which city the item was shipped”
Diagram of Crocheting (by uloni)
Wikileaks Iraq (Redacted) - note the clusters, relationships, and what takes over when - then remember that this is just a sneak peak at one part of a huge set of released documents.
