How Does Income Relate to Life Expectancy? | Gapminder In this short video Professor Hans Rosling shows that people live longer in countries with a high GDP per capita. No high income countries have short life expectancy, and no low income countries have long life expectancy. Still, there is a huge difference in life expectancy between countries on the same income level, depending on how the money is distributed and how it is used. You can download this video here! Find your country in the interactive chart here. Download file: PPT, PDF — Income data: World Bank’s GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2011 international $), Jan 14 2015. — Life expectancy: IHME 2014. — Population: UN World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. You can access the poster here.
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. "I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. A spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess. Update at 3:14 p.m.
Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt Why A T-Shirt? We wanted to see the hidden world behind clothes sold in this country, so we decided to make a T-shirt. We wanted to make an ordinary shirt like the vast majority of the shirts sold in this country — not organic cotton, not hand-sewn in the United States. To figure out how many shirts to make, and to raise money to pay for them, we turned to Kickstarter. Our goal was to sell 2,000 shirts. In the end, we sold 25,000. (Thanks again to everyone who ordered a shirt. Why A Squirrel? The design on the shirt, a squirrel hoisting a martini glass, is a visual pun: a reference to the phrase “animal spirits” made famous by the economist John Maynard Keynes. As Planet Money’s David Kestenbaum put it recently: “Keynes’ idea was that there’s more to the markets than just numbers; there are people and emotions making decisions. 10 Reporters, 3 Continents, 1 Archipelago We flew drones over Mississippi. More T-Shirt Stories! For more, subscribe to the Planet Money podcast. Credits
Defining Globalization Human societies across the globe have established progressively closer contacts over many centuries, but recently the pace has dramatically increased. Jet airplanes, cheap telephone service, email, computers, huge oceangoing vessels, instant capital flows, all these have made the world more interdependent than ever. Multinational corporations manufacture products in many countries and sell to consumers around the world. Money, technology and raw materials move ever more swiftly across national borders. Along with products and finances, ideas and cultures circulate more freely. Articles and Documents Key Documents Lamy Underlines Need For "Unity in Our Global Diversity" (June 14, 2011) Director-General of the WTO Pascal Lamy discusses globalization’s “fragile dominance” over our era, and argues that deglobalization should not and will not happen. Inescapably Side by Side - An Interview with David Held (February 2004) Runaway World - Reith Lectures Revisited (November 10, 1999) Edward S.
La Silicon Valley, un territoire productif au cœur de l’innovation mondiale et un levier de la puissance étatsunienne Bibliographie | citer cet article En Californie, au sud de la Baie de San Francisco, se déploie sur un espace restreint la Silicon Valley. Née sous l’impulsion de l’université de Stanford fondée en 1891, la Silicon Valley connaît un essor foudroyant à partir des années 1950-1960. Elle est aujourd’hui devenue un territoire productif au cœur de l’innovation mondiale en accueillant des firmes aussi emblématiques des nouvelles technologies que Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, PayPal, eBay, Netflix, NetApp, Cisco, Oracle, Adobe, Symantec, Sandisk, Seagate Technology ou FireEye. Facteur d’efficacité, de compétitivité et de domination, l’innovation est un vecteur central de la puissance américaine puisque les États-Unis demeurent la première puissance scientifique et technologique mondiale. 1. 1.1. Figure 1. À une échelle régionale, la Silicon Valley peut être rattachée à trois entités plus larges. 1.2. Figure 2. 1.3. 2. 2.1. Figure 3. 2.2. 2.3. 3. 4.
World Reaction To 2012 Election: Barack Obama's Re-Election Elicits Strong Feelings Around The Globe (PHOTOS) President Barack Obama's re-election in the United States elicited strong feelings — from optimism to skepticism — around the world. A sampling of global reaction: "One of the first things I want to talk to Barack about is how we must do more to try and solve this crisis (in Syria). Above all, congratulations to Barack. I've enjoyed working with him, I think he's a very successful U.S. president and I look forward to working with him in the future "Your re-election is a clear choice in favor of an America that is open, unified, completely engaged in the international scene and conscious of the challenges facing our planet: peace, the economy and the environment." — French President Francois Hollande. Pope Benedict XVI sent a message to Obama expressing hope that "ideals of liberty and justice, which guided the founders of the U.S.A., may continue to shine on the road ahead for the nation." — Vatican spokesman the Rev. "Sandy was a climate change warning. Related on HuffPost:
The Shipbreakers - 60 Minutes untitled How many are rich and how many are poor? | Gapminder You can download this video here! In this video Prof. Rosling shows that people live in very different income levels. The poorest live in less than 1 dollar a day. There are around 1 billion people in the world who live with less than 1 dollar per day. There are huge differences in income between the richest and the poorest. The Changing Shape of Global Inequality – exploring a new data set (2011), by Jan Luiten van Zenden & others;
Amendment 64 Passes: Colorado Legalizes Marijuana For Recreational Use The Rocky Mountain High just got a whole lot higher. On Tuesday night, Amendment 64 -- the measure seeking the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults -- was passed by Colorado voters, making Colorado the first state to end marijuana prohibition in the United States. Colorado Gov. The voters have spoken and we have to respect their will. The passage of the state measure is without historical precedent and the consequences will likely be closely-watched around the world. A common error is to believe that the Netherlands has already legalized cannabis (the preferred term for marijuana in Europe). A64 will allow adults 21 and older to purchase up to one ounce of marijuana from specialty marijuana dispensaries and grow up to six marijuana plants in their homes. Although Colorado "legalized it," it will be several months, perhaps as long as a year, before Colorado adults 21-and-over can enjoy the legal sale of marijuana.
The Globalization Website - Issues GLOBALIZATION ISSUES (back to list of issues) 1. What is globalization ? Globalization broadly refers to the expansion of global linkages, the organization of social life on a global scale, and the growth of a global consciousness, hence to the consolidation of world society. The following definitions represent currently influential views: "[T]he inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before-in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before . . . . the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world " (T.L. Competing Conceptions of Globalization In this Journal of World-Systems Research article, Leslie Sklair argues that globalization encompasses a distinct set of changes, which can be studied from four perspectives he labels world-systems, global culture, global society and global capitalism. Globalisation G.B.
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