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Archive for the 'The Planet' Category
2008 End-of-Year List compilation
Like in the last years since 2001 Fimoculous has come up with a great compilation of the best lists this year, from advertising, over books, comics, food, music to words.
Check back at their site a few times as lists for the different topics become available one after the other. Last year they selected over 600 lists.
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Innovations: IBM’s Next 5 in 5
The third annual “IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBMs Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.
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Video: Major meteor over Canada
You might have heard about the substantial (a few tons) meteor crashing down on this planet last week in Canada. Here’s some footage from a police camera showing how it looked from Edmonton, Canada where the thing came down.
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Data Visualization: The Three Trillion Dollar War
An outstanding infographic by the Good Magazine on the true cost of the war in Iraq.
The image is based on work by Nobel Prize laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes who have together published a book on this subject earlier this year (link below). There is also a video narrating the key parts of the graphics on the Good Magazine web site.
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Photography: Google LIFE photo archive
Google has made large parts of the LIFE photography archive available within its image search. There are many high resolution images included since the American Civil war and the first LIFE Magazine. You can also search this archive by adding “source:life” in the normal Google image search.
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Data-Visualization: Ensuring the Future of Food
A Sims style data-visualization by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery explaining some of the complex networks around how food arrives on tables in Japan and the food industry.
Worth watching for the graphics alone.
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