A graph that highlights how much of an outlier the U.S. is in terms of health care expenditure, which is incommensurate to the quality of care being delivered to the population at large.

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Facts about Swine Flu you should be aware of. Please make sure you understand the risks of dissemination and seek for medical help if and when you start seeing the symptoms.

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A graph of (national - state) unemployment rates. Twenty states have unemployment rates above the national average with Michigan leading the way at 12%.

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A map showing the distribution in the prevalence of various “types” of religions across the globe. What does this say about the universality of claims of singular pathway to salvation made by each of the religions practiced in the various corners of the world?

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An astounding trend in the level of employment between women and men. Somehow, men seem to be losing their jobs at significantly larger rate than women. Why?

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The idea of a “war on terror” is a “mistake”, putting too much emphasis on military force, Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said.

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A comparison of sex ratio for countries around the world in 1960 and 2000. Canada and Australia were among the most female-deficient countries in the world. After forty years, they have finally caught up with underdeveloped countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Then and now, Russia has the highest and China and India have among the lowest female:male ratio.

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…Raped by egoistic, selfish, and ignoramus buffoons who pretend to stand for her; humiliated world-over; left behind to die impoverished and in despair; stained by the blood of innocents falling victim to violence, cruelty, and lawlessness; hemorrhaging her precious resources - living and non-living…

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With B.C. grasping his behind his back, G.B. streching his out wide by the side, and B.O. holding his upfront in public view, a presidency torch is passed by virtue of a body language from the past to the present and the future!

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That is getting fatter by the year: A comparison of obesity map of the U.S. for the years 1986, 1996, and 2007. This obesity epidemic is sparing no state and is dramatically worsening. A strong leadership is required to stop it!

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A comparison of life expectancy for countries around the world in 1962 and 2004. It is simultaneously amazing and depressing that almost no change has been made in African life expectancy in almost half a century!

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The evolution in land occupation in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

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Where do the 1 million industrial robots around the world live? The answer will surprise you…

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A musical insight into Mosquito mating.

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There is a tremendous amount of buzz spreading all over the internet around the shirtless pictures of President-elect Barack Obama, O! I could not help but be impressed by the subtle, but symbolic, example it sets for the nation.

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In an excerpt from a NOVA program on “The Race for Absolute Zero,” Prof. Daniel Kleppner of MIT explains how matter changes as it nears -459.67 °F, or absolute zero. This state of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate, was discovered, in 1995, to exist in alkali metals at twenty-billionth of a degree (20 nK) above absolute zero by Eric Cornell, Carl Weiman and Wolfgang Ketterle. The three were awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.

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The seminal speeches of Barack Obama shown in a condensed word cloud representation with the exclusion of common words in the English language. It is very striking to note that each of these speeches have a particular and unmistakable message and theme as exemplified in the most frequently used words in the respective speeches (In the case of the word cloud representation, those words are the ones that are seen to be of the largest font size in the cloud). What this goes to show is Obama’s ability to communicate effectively.

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Null Information is the kind that is of no determined value or relevance. There is an astounding need for not only search for information, but also sorting and customizing it. As search technologies become more powerful, this may be accomplished with ease granted that there is an existing data connecting individual with pieces of information. There is also a need for providing venues for expressions of one kind or another. With the rapid rise in content creation and dissemination, it is going to be a battle fought over a long period of time with entities playing catch up with the population at large. Now that is a battle for the ages!

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The process of writing transforms thoughts into structured composition of words… the difficulty in writing, for that matter in any creative process, lies exactly in the challenges posed by the extraction of the inherent randomness in the thought process while transforming them into ordered synthesis and description of ideas.

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The primary factors determining the ability of an idea/information to go viral are its potential of impact and the time-length of refinement it requires. In the cases where the idea does undergo refinement, much like the wave that has a diminished amplitude, the refinement process condenses and filters the idea to make it more strong-reaction-inducing. The reality of this formulation is that if an idea/information does not have the necessary potential for impact to tunnel through the refinement barrier mostly by itself, that is, if it requires the help of major advertising push, its long-term acceptability and utility will most likely be minimal and will not last in the viral-land for a long time.

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