Top 60 Chinese Cities
Cities are one of the many phenomena that follow a long-tailed distribution. In simple terms there are a few big cities and lots of small ones. The classic way of showing a long tailed distribution (and the method from which the name is taken) is to produce as plot such as that below: The infographic at the top of the post by chinfographics.com demonstrates the distribution in a more engaging and constructive way. One method I have used in the past to demonstrate data with a long tailed distribution is the excellent Wordle tool.
A quoi ressemblerait une filière nationale du cannabis?
Faut-il dépénaliser le cannabis? Vincent Peillon, ministre de l'Education nationale a remis la question dans le débat, dimanche 14 octobre 2012, sur France Inter. publicité Cette prise de position vient après celle, en juin, de la ministre du Logement. Cécile Duflot, qui s'exprimait «en tant que secrétaire nationale d'Europe Ecologie Les Verts» (et non comme ministre du gouvernement Ayrault), s'était prononcée en faveur de la dépénalisation chez Jean-Jacques Bourdin, le 5 juin 2012 sur RMC. Daniel Vaillant, auteur d'un rapport préconisant également la légalisation du cannabis en juin 2011, était l'invité de France Inter le 6 juin: Daniel Vaillant par franceinter L'occasion pour lui de rappeler quelques chiffres: «Est-ce que la lutte est contre le cannabis est une réussite? Jean-Marc Ayrault avait répondu en juin, sur TF1 que la dépénalisation «n'est pas à l'ordre du jour». Production Ainsi, 60% du cannabis consommé en Grande-Bretagne est désormais produit sur place. La qualité du produit
The Nighttime Earth
SAN FRANCISCO — The Earth at night looks more beautiful than it ever has before in these incredible new images from NASA's Suomi NPP satellite. These super-high-resolution images, made possible by a new type of infrared sensor on the satellite, were revealed here at the American Geophysical Union conference Dec. 5.The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite has a "day-night band" that can detect natural and man-made light with unprecedented resolution and clarity. It can resolve everything from the nocturnal glow of the atmosphere to the light of a single boat at sea. It can detect auroras, wildfires, the reflection of moon and star light off clouds and ice and the lights alongside highways. The sensor has six times better spatial resolution and 250 times better resolution of lighting levels than anything that came before it.The VIIRS instrument works by scanning in 22 different wavelength bands.
Why We’re in a New Gilded Age by Paul Krugman
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 685 pp., $39.95 Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics, isn’t a household name, although that may change with the English-language publication of his magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Yet his influence runs deep. The result has been a revolution in our understanding of long-term trends in inequality. It therefore came as a revelation when Piketty and his colleagues showed that incomes of the now famous “one percent,” and of even narrower groups, are actually the big story in rising inequality. Still, today’s economic elite is very different from that of the nineteenth century, isn’t it? It’s a remarkable claim—and precisely because it’s so remarkable, it needs to be examined carefully and critically. What do we know about economic inequality, and about when do we know it? Why?
Earth at Night 2012
Account Options Sign in Earth at Night 2012 This new global view and animation of Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. ©2014 Google - Terms of Use Layers Map
Pisces Horoscope
Pisces Horoscope for week of June 20, 2013 For over three decades, a man in Assam, India has worked to build a forest. When Jadav "Molai" Payeng started planting and tending seeds at the age of 16, the sandbars bordering the Brahmaputra River were barren. Today, almost entirely thanks to him, they're covered with a 1,360-acre forest that harbors deer, birds, tigers, rhinos, and elephants. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you could launch a comparable project in the next 12 months, Pisces -- a labor of love that will require your persistent creativity and provide you with sanctuary for a long time. Listen to my IN-DEPTH, LONG-TERM AUDIO FORECAST for your life in the coming months. Where are you likely to find most success? The in-depth, long-range Expanded Audio horoscopes cost $6 apiece if you access them on the Web (discounts are available for multiple purchases), or $1.99 per minute if you want them over the phone.
Que faire de ce que nous apprend Thomas Piketty sur Le capital au XXIe siècle
En effet, en France, en 2013, le 1 % le plus riche détient 25 % du patrimoine total du pays |3|. Au Royaume-Uni (R.U.), il détient 30 %. En Suède, 20 %. Aux E.U., 32 % |4|. Si on inclut la part dissimulée de la richesse dans les paradis fiscaux Paradis fiscauxParadis fiscal Territoire caractérisé par les cinq critères (non cumulatifs) suivants : (a) l’opacité (via le secret bancaire ou un autre mécanisme comme les trusts) ; (b) une fiscalité très basse, voire une imposition nulle pour les non-résidents ; (c) des facilités législatives permettant de créer des sociétés écrans, sans aucune obligation pour les non-résidents d’avoir une activité réelle sur le territoire ; (d) l’absence de coopération avec les administrations fiscales, douanières et/ou judiciaires des autres pays ; (e) la faiblesse ou l’absence de régulation financière. La Suisse, la City de Londres et le Luxembourg accueillent la majorité des capitaux placés dans les paradis fiscaux. Tableau 1. Tableau 2. Tableau 3.
