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How a Car Engine Works - Animagraffs. How Americans Die. By Matthew C. Klein / Bloomberg View / April 17, 2014How Americans Die The mortality rate fell by about 17 percent from 1968 through 2010, years for which we have detailed data.Almost all of this improvement can be attributed to improved survival prospects for men. It looks like progress stopped in the mid-1990s… Mortality rate per 100,000 people …but that’s only because the population has aged a lot since then. Share of population This has a big effect on the overall mortality rate, because old people die sooner than the young. Mortality rate per 100,000 people by age If you divide the population into separate age cohorts, you can see that improvements in life expectancy have been broad-based and ongoing.Looking at mortality for each age cohort since 1968, we see that Americans under 25 have made the most progress. Mortality rate per 100,000 people by age (1968 = 100) But one line in this chart looks unusual!

Share of total U.S. health-care spending. Water we eat. The good news is that each one of us can also make the world a little more water secure, ready to face the needs of our peak population future. How? The answer lies in our shopping baskets. The amount of meat in our diet is crucial! The average daily water consumption of a meat-eating person is 5000 litres of water per day. The average for a vegetarian is 2500 litres. The type of meat we consume is crucial! The food we waste is crucial! So, do not forget: one meat-free-day a week choose meat raised on grass do not waste food. Explaining Diagrams: a short introduction. Animated Factorization Diagrams.

Tie. One Race, Every Medalist Ever. Sources: "The Complete Book of the Olympics" by David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky, International Olympic Committee; Amateur Athletic Assocation; Photographs: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times, Getty Images, International Olympic Committee By KEVIN QUEALY and GRAHAM ROBERTS Usain Bolt vs. 116 years of Olympic sprinters Based on the athletes’ average speeds, if every Olympic medalist raced each other, Usain Bolt (the London version) would win, with a wide distribution of Olympians behind him. Below, where each sprinter would be when Bolt finishes his race.

Usain Bolt2012 Meters behind 2012 Bolt Medals by country This chart includes medals for the United States and Australia in the "Intermediary" Games of 1906, which the I.O.C. does not formally recognize. Notable winners of the 100-meter sprint Archie Hahn United States The “Milwaukee Meteor” also won the 50-meter dash and the 200-meter dash in 1904. Jesse Owens Jim Hines Carl Lewis. Perpetual Ocean. Wind Map. An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.

The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires :-) If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. If you're looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind.

Solar system. The Biggest Stars in the Universe. Tweet ping. Viral: Photo-Sharing Explosions. This is a series of videos that visualizes a single piece of content being shared between hundreds of thousands of individuals on Facebook. We've tried to capture the frenetic energy surrounding three of the most shared images, all of which were photos published on George Takei's Page. Each visualization is made up of a series of branches starting from a single person. As the branch grows, re-shares split off on their own arcs, sometimes spawning a new generation of re-shares, sometimes exploding in a short-lived burst of activity.

The two different colors show gender, and each successive generation becomes more and more white as time goes by. Here are the three images from George Takei featured in the videos: Marvin the Martian Ab Fab London Famous Failures The data used for these visualizations spans a three-month period from July to September and is composed of shares originating from news feed. OrgOrgChart - Autodesk Research. The growth of Walmart : three ways. World population: The seventh billion. A blog by victor powell. May 29, 2013 In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states that, given certain conditions, the mean of a sufficiently large number of independent random variables, each with a well-defined mean and well-defined variance, will be approximately normally distributed. -- Central Limit Theorem - Wikipedia which is what we see here. at every triangle, the ball has a 50/50 shot of going to the left or to the right. you can also think of it like coin flips, where the number of coin flips is (bins -1) if we assign heads to 0, and tails, 1 (or 0 for left, 1 for right as in the case of the visualization above) for 1 coin flip, the possible sums of coin flips are: so for 1 coin flip, there are 2 different possible outcomes, each equally likely. the expected percentage of the possible outcomes is then: for 2 coin flips, all possible outcomes are: so for 2 coin flips, there's only 3 different possible expected coin sums.

Give it a try! Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance. New York City's greenhouse gas emissions as one-ton spheres of carbon dioxide gas. Pêche :: OCEAN2012. 8 juin – 31 août 2012 Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Nederlands Polski Português La surpêche vide les océans de leurs poissons. Cet été, les Semaines européennes de la pêche seront l'occasion de demander aux responsables politiques de « mettre fin à la surpêche ou ce sera la fin de la pêche ».

Les politiques ont la responsabilité de prendre les décisions qui mettront fin à la surpêche ; les citoyens ont la responsabilité de les soutenir et de les encourager à prendre ces décisions. Les Semaines européennes de la pêche sont l'occasion de faire entendre votre voix. Participez La pêche européenne peut être améliorée et vous pouvez y contribuer. Vous pouvez également organiser votre propre événement et créer un motif de poisson à visage humain pour mettre fin à la surpêche. Activités en ligne Faites passer le mot en intégrant notre widget sur votre site web (en haut à droite) ou en partageant notre message sur Facebook et Twitter (#fishweeks (@OCEAN2012EU @OCEAN2012FR). Vnements. The Forest of Advocacy. DON'T WORRY, DRIVE ON. Hans Rosling's shortest TED talk. Hans Rosling explains population growth and climate change. Pythagorean Theorem.