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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has had a nuclear disaster after the events of March 11 in Japan.Photograph: Air Photo Service/AFP/Getty Images
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A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Why would a man in Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a television? Why is it so hard for children in poor areas to learn even when they attend school?
Female employment has risen in the past 15 years by more than 10 percentage points, from just over half of women working in the mid-1990s to nearer 60% in 2009.
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Community Blog » Blog Archive » Clearspring’s Big Data Architecture, Part 1
This is the first post in a three part series that will describe the data analytics architecture Clearspring has created to process large amounts of semi-structured data. Check out post 2 and post 3 when you’re done reading this post. On a daily basis, the Clearspring network yields tens of billions of new, unique data points.
What Congress Would Look Like If It Were Demographically Representative of America
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Every action, every event, every person, everything emits a certain amount of carbon. This interactive visualization examines some of those scenarios. Play around to learn some interesting and surprising information about how much carbon is released during various activities.
How Much CO2 Is Created By…
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has had a nuclear disaster after the events of March 11 in Japan.Photograph: Air Photo Service/AFP/Getty Images