Infographics
Today, Fark.com linked to a very enlightening set of infographics hosted by the International Networks Archive, a project involving some faculty from Princeton that aims to develop sets of data that chronicle global issues through empirical research.
Some interesting things I learned from browsing the infographics...
- While Finland, Canada, and some other usual suspects have the best drinking water in the world, guess who has the worst? It's not Rwanda or India... it's Belgium!
- 7,000 bags of luggage are lost every day by the airline industry, a figure that gives you only a 99.5% chance of being able to pick up your bags at the carousel at your destination. I'm glad I always carry on!
- It's true America has the highest percentage of people who own cars, at 78.5%, but did you know that same figure for India is only 2.5%?
- More than twice the number of people robbed with guns in Ireland in 1997 were robbed with what other device? That's right, a syringe, which outgunned the pistol with 590 incidents, compared to a paltry 252.
Check those infographics out; there's more interesting stuff where this came from!
In other news, Taylor is on a flight to Boston right now, and she'll meet our mother at the airport there this evening. Taylor said the security measures that have come into effect because of the UK hijacking hijinks last week didn't really slow anything down and that the line at security was pretty short. Cool!
Now, I have until Friday to prepare a survey of current research on magnetic actuation at the micro- and nanoscale. I'll give that presentation at the nano-lab meeting Friday afternoon. Here we go.