Gun Deaths In America This interactive graphic is part of our project exploring the more than 33,000 annual gun deaths in America and what it would take to bring that number down. See our stories on suicides among middle-age men, homicides of young black men and accidental deaths, or explore the menu for more coverage. Methodology The data in this interactive graphic comes primarily from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Multiple Cause of Death database, which is derived from death certificates from all 50 states and the District of Columbia and is widely considered the most comprehensive estimate of firearm deaths. The “homicides” category includes deaths by both assault and legal intervention (primarily shootings by police officers). For shootings of police officers, we used the FBI’s count of law enforcement officers “feloniously killed” by firearms in the line of duty. For mass shootings, we used Mother Jones’s database of public mass shootings. Additional contributions by Kshitij Aranke.
Fake News Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts : All Tech Considered Guido Rosa/Getty Images/Ikon Images Fake news stories can have real-life consequences. On Sunday, police said a man with a rifle who claimed to be "self-investigating" a baseless online conspiracy theory entered a Washington, D.C., pizzeria and fired the weapon inside the restaurant. So, yes, fake news is a big problem. These stories have gotten a lot of attention, with headlines claiming Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump in November's election and sites like American News sharing misleading stories or taking quotes out of context. Stopping the proliferation of fake news isn't just the responsibility of the platforms used to spread it. The idea is that people should have a fundamental sense of media literacy. Sam Wineburg, a professor of education and history at Stanford and the lead author of the study, said a solution is for all readers to read like fact checkers. That's the framework for professionals, but there are ways for everyone to do a bit of fact checking themselves.
chocolatexture for Maison et Objet 2015 Cocoa’s country of origin, kind, percentage content, technique of the chocolatier’s, the flavours inside…There are many factors that determine a chocolate’s taste. In coming up with a new chocolate concept, we turned out attention not to such factors, but to the chocolate’s “shape.” The 9 different types of chocolate are made within the same size, 26x26x26mm, featuring pointed tips, hollow interiors, smooth or rough surface textures–and, while the raw materials are identical, the distinctive textures create different tastes. Each chocolate is directly named after Japanese expressions used to describe texture. 1. Collaborator : hnm, tyyPhotographer : Akihiro Yoshida FlowingData A Terrifying Superbug Just Showed Up on a US Farm for the First Time More than 70 percent of the antibiotics consumed in the United States go to livestock farms, one of the main triggers driving a rising crisis of antibiotic resistance in human medicine. On Tuesday, researchers from Ohio State University published an alarming finding in a peer-reviewed journal: On a US hog farm, they found bacteria that can withstand a crucial family of antibiotics. Carbapenems, as they are known, are a "last line of defense" against bacterial pathogens that can resist other antibiotics, the paper notes. Worse still, the gene that allowed the bacteria to resist carbapenems turned up in a plasmid—small chunks of DNA found in bacterial cells. "Infections with these germs are very difficult to treat, and can be deadly—the death rate from patients with CRE bloodstream infections is up to 50 percent." If this news sounds depressingly familiar, it's because something very similar happened with another last-ditch antibiotic, colostin.
THOMAS THWAITES » The Toaster Project Much has been said elsewhere about The Toaster Project, which I’m really pleased about! I’ll not try and reproduce it here, except to answer some questions and criticisms (which for the most part are totally welcome). So, firstly, yes, I realise toasting bread over a fire would’ve been a lot easier. But was a piece of toast (or designing a better toaster) really the point of this project? Secondly, yes I realise I cheated quite a lot! Thirdly, I now know about the essay I, Pencil, written from the perspective of a pencil ‘as told to Leonard E. There is a book of the toaster project, published by Princeton Architectural Press, and which has Japanese and Korean editions! The ancient original site for the project is here: www.thetoasterproject.org. I also did a TED talk about the project, and it’s been watched over a million times. Korean edition…! Crazy looking Japanese edition! Photo: Daniel Alexander Photo: Nick Ballon
One Dataset, Visualized 25 Ways “Let the data speak.” It’s a common saying for chart design. The premise — strip out the bits that don’t help patterns in your data emerge — is fine, but people often misinterpret the mantra to mean that they should make a stripped down chart and let the data take it from there. You have to guide the conversation though. To show you what I mean, I present you with twenty-five charts below, all based on the same dataset. Click images for the full size charts. Looks like spaghetti Shows countries separately so that lines don’t overlap No surprises Shows change over time with bars, would probably benefit from sorting Focus on the the difference between the two sexes, with comparison across countries Focus on difference between male and female over time A focus the change between two time periods instead of the fluctuations Comparison between the two, in a more compact space Shows changes over time, although not super clear with this dataset Opting for movement instead of connected lines I’ll explain.
Inside a fringe economy: the convoluted camel milk trade | New Food Economy All photos by Byron Kerman. Sam Hostetler didn’t start raising camels so he could milk them. That came later. At first, he just sold or leased them to Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede Dinner Attraction (“top-notch riders . . . music, dancing, special effects and family friendly comedy”) in Branson, Missouri. That’s Hostetler’s other business—exotic animals. At any rate, he had these camels, and one day, he said, a North Carolina-based doctor called. In addition to camels, Hostetler raises ostriches, zedonks, and lemurs It’s an exemplary tale, with a cast of characters including not just Hostetler and the camel-evangelist North Carolina doctor, but also network of Amish-Mennonite farmers spread through Pennsylvania and the Midwest and a Saudi entrepreneur from Santa Monica. Hostetler started to milk the camels and at first sold it to mostly to friends and neighbors. Hostetler’s camel operation is one in a network of camel milk-producing farms Raw camel milk retails for $18 per pint. Maybe.
Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen It is well known that solar kitchens use alternative energy: the sun. Yet it is not so widely known how the technical parameters of the solar kitchen affect food processing when cooking. Heat is all over the food, and is not only below as in the traditional way of cooking. The time sequence is much more progressive, changing continuously. Visual Business Intelligence We typically think of quantitative scales as linear, with equal quantities from one labeled value to the next. For example, a quantitative scale ranging from 0 to 1000 might be subdivided into equal intervals of 100 each. Linear scales seem natural to us. If we took a car trip of 1000 miles, we might imagine that distance as subdivided into ten 100 mile segments. It isn’t likely that we would imagine it subdivided into four logarithmic segments consisting of 1, 9, 90, and 900 mile intervals. Similarly, we think of time’s passage—also quantitative—in terms of days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, or millennia; intervals that are equal (or in the case of months, roughly equal) in duration. Logarithms and their scales are quite useful in mathematics and at times in data analysis, but they are only useful for presenting data on those relatively rare cases when addressing an audience that consists of those who have been trained to think in logarithms.
The Matter of Meat: A history of pros and cons - Home | Ideas with Paul Kennedy To learn more click on a 'cut' Eating meat: some say we've evolved to do it. It's in our DNA. Oops... Your browser isn't capable of playing this media. Error 6 The Matter of Meat Quiz Who Said What? Famous quotes about meat1:57 Guests in this episode: Carol Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory Gary Francione, professor and legal scholar at Rutgers University, and author of several books on veganism and animal rights Nicolette Hahn Niman, cattle rancher, author of Defending Beef and Righteous Porkchop Roger Scruton, philosopher and farmer, author of several books including Animal Rights and Wrongs Marta Zaraska, freelance science journalist and author of Meathooked: the history and science of our 2.5 million-year obsession with meat Colin Spencer, English artist, playwright, and author of several books including Vegetarianism: A History Bob Fischer, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University Mark G.
Republic of Salivation (Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta) From the curators: Designers Michiko Nitta and Michael Burton often work from a conceptual perspective—meaning that they identify future problems and imagine possible outcomes. In the Republic of Salivation scenario, which is part of their larger After Agri project, they contemplate what could happen if our society were confronted with food shortages and famine. They envision a dystopian fallout in which the government is forced to implement a strict food-rationing policy, whereby an individual’s food allotment is carefully tailored to the emotional, physical, and intellectual demands of their employment. The example explored here is that of an industrial worker’s diet: composed largely of starch, allowing the body to work for longer periods on fewer nutrients. I’m with Wendell Berry on this one: “The cities have forgot the earth and will rot at heart till they remember it again.” The good news is that we are on our way to “remembering the earth” once again.
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