16 Facts About Sleep In order to start the week off right, I thought I would share an infographic very appropriate for a Monday, one entitled “16 Things You Didn’t Know About Sleep.” As I write this I think about how amazing sleep is and of those mornings when sleep is just too appealing to pass up. As we all know sleep is essential to life. Sleeping works better than any medicine or home remedy, sleeping is the cure-all. One interesting tidbit that you may be unaware of which this infographic suggests is that color television has actually affected the way people dream. As a college student I now realize the importance of sleep. Share This Infographic Get Free Infographics Delivered to your Inbox
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Facebook, Privacy and Health (Client Infographic) Monday, July 11, 2011 at 6:00AM Randy in Facebook, InfoNewt, Privacy, client, health, personal, research, social, social media, web For the Path of the Blue Eye Project, InfoNewt (my company) recently designed the infographic: What You Need To Know: Facebook, Privacy and Health. The group at the Path of the Blue Eye Project has done some fantastic, primary research about online users’ willingness and attitudes about sharing health information online, and specifically Facebook. The answer is overwhelmingly “NO”. If Facebook is so popular (Pew reports that 62% of Web users frequent sites like Facebook and MySpace), why are people shying away from sharing health content with others on the site? What Are The Hardest Languages To Learn? [INFOGRAPHIC] Learning a new language can be difficult, but some languages can be trickier than others. For native English speakers, the difficulty level of a new language depends on a variety of factors. So which are the most difficult to learn? (Click Image To Enlarge) Use This Infographic In Your Class We think that infographics are an awesome learning and teaching tool, so our creations will always be available for you to print out, use with your students and embed on your blog! Embed this image on your site <a href=" src=" <a href=" Blog</a> Warm-Up Activity Before handing out the infographic, discuss the following questions with your students: Are some languages harder to learn than others? Speaking & Critical Thinking Practice Questions to ask your students after presenting the infographic:
How Bad Are Hospital Acquired Infections in America? - Megan McArdle - Life... Yesterday, I saw this graphic linked by Kevin Drum, purporting to show that the US hospitals are killing their patients in horrifying numbers: The thing set off huge alarm bells. Not because I think that it's impossible that US hospitals are dropping the ball on hospital acquired infections--indeed, my column next month, which is already at the printers, will be on antibiotic resistance. And hospital procedures like hand-washing play a huge role in the spread of resistant infection. But these numbers were wildly out-of-sync with the ones I'd seen. So I started looking at the links, which (at least the ones I looked at) didn't say what they were purported to say; for example, the graphic says that the US ranks last out of 19 countries in preventable deaths at hospitals, but the source seems to be a Commonwealth Fund report that ranks the US last in "amenable death", which basically includes any death that could have been prevented by more "timely and effective healthcare".
What Shapes Our Language? Our language is constantly being shaped by a number of different influences, from social media and pop culture to other languages and even human error. Thanks to the ever-evolving Internet, new words enter our language almost daily. But beyond new words, technology has had a big impact on the ways in which we communicate, particularly with respect to how many words it takes us to get our point across. View the infographic below to learn more. (Click Image To Enlarge) Use This Infographic In Your Class We think that infographics are an awesome learning and teaching tool, so our creations will always be available for you to print out, use with your students and embed on your blog! Embed this image on your site <a href=" src=" <a href=" Blog</a> Warm-Up Activity Writing Challenge
Massive Health Analyzes How Healthy We Think We Eat [Infographic] [Editors Note: This post includes 1 of 5 infographics looking at how, where , what, when and with who people eat. The remaining infographics can be found Massive Health raised $2.5 million in seed funding to help people improve their health through better data, design, social and game mechanics. Their goal has been to bridge the world’s of healthcare and consumer products, using mobile phones as sensors that collect real-time data about a user’s behavior. Their first experiment with this is The Eatery, an iPhone app that helps users track and analyze their eating patterns to better understand their strengths, weaknesses and the best places to make changes in their diet. Collecting large-scale, real-time data about people’s diets, not just self-reported details about their eating habits, is nearly impossible. But can crowdsourced data be trusted? Massive Health has broken the infographics into five parts. [Sign up for
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