Current Affairs

David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful .net) prepares interesting diagrams to present information and statistics in an accessible way. This one …Read the Rest

It took 18,000 troops from Camp Dodge, DesMoines to stand in perfect formation to make this picture of a human …Read the Rest

The Thatcher effect, named after the notorious former premiere, whose photograph was first used to demonstrate the effect, refers to …Read the Rest

Population Overdrive!

50, September 14, 2008
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The world’s (human) population at the time of Christ was about 200 million. Now it is nearing 7 billion! Projections …Read the Rest

Now this one is hard to believe! On Monday 8th Sept, 2008, automated programs were allowed to wipe more than …Read the Rest

By 2010 we will all be using 1.1 Terrabytes per month!

By 2010 the average household will be using 1.1 terabytes  of bandwidth a month (that’s roughly equal to 1,000 copies …Read the Rest

Swedish parents Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding had planned never to name their baby boy, born in 1991, as a …Read the Rest

The St. Mary’s airport in the Isles of Scilly (sic) has advertised for the post of Air Traffic Controller, offering …Read the Rest

Cutting foliage in parks may upset gay men!??

In a bizarre story in the Herald, it is reported that Bristol City Council’s plans to manage their undergrowth have …Read the Rest

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