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35 Million Escape Poverty – But Can Brazil Overcome Inequality? It seems that the United Nations campaign to end poverty by 2015 is just another challenge to be accomplished by many countries around the globe, although a few countries are closer to their targets than others.

Brazil, the largest country in South America and home of 194 million people, has captured the attention of the world for its achievement: 35 million Brazilians have escaped poverty over the last decade thanks to its fast growing economy which has consequently enhanced the middle class in Brazil. Economy Watch wrote: At least 53 percent of Brazil’s population – 104 million Brazilians – are now part of the nation’s middle class, compared to just 38 percent ten years ago, said an official study by the government on Thursday [.....] “If Brazil's middle class formed a country, it would be the 12th largest, behind Mexico,” Tehrangeles: How Iranians made part of LA their own. 29 September 2012Last updated at 00:23 GMT By Shoku Amirani BBC Radio 4 Google maps recently recognised "Tehrangeles" as a neighbourhood of central Los Angeles.

Suzanne Kasler Interiors Kenya House - Open Air House in Kenya. Minecraft Partners With United Nations For Urban Planning. Minecraft changed the video game industry by selling millions of downloads of an indie game.

Now the free-form building game is inviting players to help redesign real-world locations around the world. Minecraft creator Mojang announced yesterday in a blog post that it is teaming up with United Nations Habitat to upgrade 300 public spaces by 2016. The project, called Block by Block, enlists local youth to improve their neighborhoods. How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary "Übermind" Is Inevitable. World's Scariest Hotel Pool? Holiday Inn Shanghai's Glass-Bottom Pool Hangs Over 24-Story Drop (PHOTO) When it comes to hotels, a room with a view is desirable, but a pool with a view is something special, especially when that view is 24 stories straight down.

Part of the hotel's 30-meter indoor pool hangs out past the building's edge, and is constructed with a glass bottom, giving swimmers the sensation of swimming in the sky. The U.S. Cities Getting Smarter The Fastest. Say what? Houston, not Austin, is America's coolest city. > All Ablog Austin > Archives > 2012 > July > 27 > Entry By Gary Dinges | Friday, July 27, 2012, 11:04 AM America’s coolest city is … Houston?

Really? (Full disclosure: I grew up in the Houston area, and even I’m more than a little surprised.) Austin, meanwhile, comes in at No. 19 on a newly released Forbes magazine list , behind such hip and happening hot spots as Bethesda, Md.; Oakland, Calif.; and Baltimore, Md. Underwater Hotel planned for Dubai. Chinese hotels: Sleepy hollow. Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users – that's us. Most technology designers engage in their trade to make the world a better place.

Technologists love to celebrate the amazing things that people can do with technology – bridge geography, connect communities and transform societies. Google Street View takes you to the Amazon, without all the pesky piranhas. The South: Non-practising versus true Southerners. Cartographic curiosities / In 2002, China's Long March Project embarked upon a 'Walking Visual Display' along the route of the 1934-1936 historic 6000-mile Long March, and Beijing-based artist Qin kept tracked the group’s route in a tattooed map on his ba. Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline.

By Maria Popova A chronology of one of our most inescapable metaphors, or what Macbeth has to do with Galileo.

I was recently asked to select my all-time favorite books for the lovely Ideal Bookshelf project by The Paris Review’s Thessaly la Force and artist Jane Mount. Despite the near-impossible task of shrinking my boundless bibliophilia to a modest list of dozen or so titles, I was eventually able to do it, and the selection included Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline (public library | IndieBound) by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton — among both my 7 favorite books on maps and my 7 favorite books on time, this lavish collection of illustrated timelines traces the history of graphic representations of time in Europe and the United States from 1450 to the present, featuring everything from medieval manuscripts to websites to a chronological board game developed by Mark Twain.

The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a. Facebook Makes You Two Friends Closer to Everyone [STUDY] A theory stemming from an experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s claims every living person is connected to any other through only six friends.

According to a recent study, Facebook reduces the six degrees of separation to only four, meaning the world's largest social network makes the world even smaller (figuratively). 12 Best Children's Museums In The U.S. America's Fastest-Growing Small Towns. Kids Think Technology is Fundamentally Human. Growing up with the Internet gives today’s children a very unique view on the way the world works — one that is vastly different from that of older generations.

These kids, the ‘digital natives,” are raised with modern technology deeply embedded into their lives, and form a natural understanding of its benefits. This deeply rooted acceptance gives kids a unique perspective on how technology can be further used to make our lives easier, and helps researchers predict future needs for innovation. What can we learn from the digital natives? We asked this question back in September, and it’s one that research firm Latitude sought to answer with its KIDS – Kids Innovation Discovery Series initiative. Now, Latitude is back to find out how technology, specifically robotics, can be used to inspire new opportunities for learning and creativity. Education and learning are moving, at least in many children’s eyes, beyond acts of knowledge transmission toward acts of exploration and creation.”

Russia By Rail: The End Of The Line : The Picture Show. Hide caption The kilometer marker on the train platform in Vladivostok lets travelers know they are a long way from Moscow.

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