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Data Visualization: Doctors of the World
The image below was created as a poster for Dutch doctors to hangs on the wall of their waiting rooms. With 170 inhabitants per doctor Cuba is still the world leader on that chart. Not unsurprising other (former) communist countries follow on the next positions (in some of those countries the numbers have already started to deteriorate).
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Virtual Worlds: 3D Berlin in Google Earth
Since this week Germany’s capital Berlin is available as a 3D model within Google Earth. In difference to other 3D worlds already available in Google Earth the buildings within the virtual Berlin have detailed architectural representations including their photorealistic facades. Some buildings can even be visited or entered virtually. So far the present model covers about 10% of the area of Berlin – only a small sample of the official three-dimensional city model of Berlin. The model consists of some 44,000 buildings in the centre of Berlin shown in…
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Quote of the day: The World and Experts
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done. Peter Ustinov
Land Rover get’s your Chelsea tractor carbon-neutral
Land Rover has today announced the first projects in its CO2 Offset Program to reduce greenhouse gases with projects in Tajikistan and China. The first projects include a hydro-electric power plant in Tajikistan and a wind farm in China. Together these projects will offset 150,000 tons of CO2 a year. Further projects in Uganda, India, Turkey and the Dominican Republic are currently evaluated. Customers of all new Land Rover vehicles sold in the UK from this year on will pay…
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Image: Honi soit qui mal y pense
An image from a NASA site is getting very popular around the Internet today. One could think of a few comments for that picture and some have started to photoshop it, but below you find the explanation for this phenomenon…
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Travel: Around the world in (more than) 80 days
In our societies where spending time on things you enjoy has become the ultimate luxury a couple from the UK has gone on a year long journey to do exactly this. Ed Gillespie and his girlfriend Fiona King have just begun a year-long travel around the world. On their trip they will visit 20 countries and cover around 40,000 miles, but will at no point travel by plane. Mr Gillespie, 34, and Miss King, 28, have mapped a route using 19 trains, seven ferries, five buses, three container ships and a banana boat. Mr Gillespie, who worked as environmental manager for…
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