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POPSPersonal Injury in the Wild (infographic) Every year, thousands of people across the world are seriously injured and even killed by the wild creatures of the animal kingdom. Check out these stats on personal injury in the wild and see which animal attacks are the most dangerous.
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POPSThe Most Homocidal Countries [INFOGRAPHIC] With Halloween around the corner, the idea of being stabbed by a deranged murderer is at the front of our minds. GOOD's latest transparency is a look at where in the world are you most likely to be murdered and which countries have the lowest homicide rates.
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POPSMore titillating infographics: Product Space & Development of Nations Cool infographic showing material types, products, proximity of manufacture, world trade volumes of each. According to the brief, "proximity" here refers to the theory that a country's ability to manufacture a product (e.g. apples) depends on its ability to produce related ones (e.g. another fruit like pears). Part of information supporting the paper The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabasi, Hausmann). There is also a page where you can download individual country maps. Via VisualComplexity .
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POPSMcCain v. Obama: Tax Cuts infographic speaks for itself... and ethically it never makes sense to me why you would give the richest people in america the biggest tax cuts....or economically. i'm young and naive though. too bad i'm voting this round...
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POPSDuelity Just go to http://www.duelity.net/ & click "watch". There are three short movies.
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POPSViolent quake hits Japan. Reactor leaks, but is okay. The news this morning on CNN was extremely misleading - they had the headline "Nuclear reactor leak" with an infographic showing red lines going throughout most of Japan. The graphic was actually of the quake radius, not of the extent of the leak! It seems the leak was relatively minor and apparently harmless.
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POPSGraphic: What are the odds of dying? This great infographic uses the area of overlapping circles to compare the probability of ways to go in America. You can see at a glance that nothing even comes close to heart disease and cancer in terms of likelihood. (Based on data collected in 2003 by the National Safety Council .)