Our Aging World: Wave Goodbye To The Population Pyramid — Longevity Reporter. Why does this matter? The US alone already has 40 million people over 60 - more than the entire population of California. These numbers are straining resources worldwide and will affect nearly every aspect of society. This trend matters because it means older individuals will have more of a say in politics and society than ever before. We can't know for sure exactly how this will effect things like the economy or political leanings, but it could be a blessing or a curse. Longer lives are something to celebrate, but if we don't galvanise people now it'll be too late to act Seeing figures and data like this hits home that our world is changing, and changing for good. Read more at Transgenerational. 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
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40 maps that explain the world. By Max Fisher By Max Fisher August 12, 2013 Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. So when we saw a post sweeping the Web titled "40 maps they didn't teach you in school," one of which happens to be a WorldViews original, I thought we might be able to contribute our own collection. Some of these are pretty nerdy, but I think they're no less fascinating and easily understandable. A majority are original to this blog, with others from a variety of sources. I've included a link for further reading on close to every one. [Additional read: How Ukraine became Ukraine and 40 more maps that explain the world] Click to enlarge.
40 more maps that explain the world. Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.
You might consider this, then, a collection of maps meant to inspire your inner map nerd. I've searched far and wide for maps that can reveal and surprise and inform in ways that the daily headlines might not, with a careful eye for sourcing and detail. I've included a link for more information on just about every one. 1. Data source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, World Bank. Those dots represent people: the brighter the dot, the more people. 2. Click to enlarge. Human beings first left Africa about 60,000 years ago in a series of waves that peopled the globe. 3. (Wikimedia commons) The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. 4. Click to enlarge. This map shows the Spanish and Portuguese empires at their height. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before. European History Interactive Map. Chronologie de l'empire romain. TimeMaps - World History TimeMap. Créer des frises chronologiques interactives et géolocalisées. Les frises chronologiques permettent de situer les événements majeurs sur la ligne du temps, et sont largement utilisées dans les ocurs d'histoire. Aujourd'hui, à l'ère du multimédia, les frises classiques sur papier semblent plutôt ternes.
Particulièrement après avoir essayé MyHistro. Quand la frise chronologique devient techno Cette application, qui existe aussi en version mobile (pour iPhone seulement pour le moment) propose aux internautes de créer des frises chronologiques interactives. Après une inscription gratuite, ils seront conviés à placer les éléments de leur choix sur la ligne de temps. Pour chaque olympiade, cet usager a dû créer un événement (event), c'est-à-dire le placer dans le temps et le localiser sur une carte (Google Maps). MyHistro a un aspect collaboratif très intéressant. MyHistro est proposé en plusieurs langues (dont l'espagnol, le russe ou le portugais), mais pas encore en français. MyHistro. Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests | World news. Cartothèque. Le dessous des cartes.
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