Illustrators and Visual Storytellers Map the World by Maria Popova “Cartography can be an incredible form of escapism, as maps act as proxies for experiences.” “Could it have been the drawing of maps that boosted our ancestors beyond the critical threshold which the other apes just failed to cross? In A Map of the World According to Illustrators and Storytellers (public library), the fine folks of Gestalten — who have a knack for pictorial magic and visual storytelling — collect more than 500 maps by artists, illustrators, and designers representing the creative zeitgeist of modern cartography around the world, ranging from the astoundingly accurate and detailed to the marvelously abstract and utopian. Antonis Antoniou writes in the preface: Only few graphic representation devices have been such a fountainhead of wonderment, controversy, and utility as maps have. Vesa Sammalisto Mallorca João Lauro Fonte Boots Adventures in London (Converse) Martin Haake Cruising Around Africa Vic Lee London Hartwall Lapin Kulta Masako Kubo Green Map Mike Lemanski
8 Types Of Infographics & Which One To Use When Whether you love them or hate them, infographics are still one of the most effective ways to present a lot of information in an interesting, concise and easily digestible way. It’s much faster to get the gist of something by scanning an infographic than reading several paragraphs of text. There have been a lot of bad infographics presented over the past few years, but overall, I’m noticing that the quality is going up. Did you know there are different styles of infographics? Today I’d like to share the 8 types of infographics with you. There are probably more than 8 types of infographics in the world, but for the purpose of this article, let’s just say there are 8 types. FeaturePoints – One of the best apps that will pay you for using it! This well put together presentation was the result of a collaboration between Neo Mammalian Studios and Econsultancy. If you are an infographic designer, you can get more detailed information about this. Via: [Econsultancy] [Neo Mammalian Studios]
The Book of Trees: 800 Years of Visualizing Science, Religion, and Knowledge ... by Maria Popova How the humble tree became our most powerful visual metaphor for organizing information and distilling our understanding of the world. Why is it that when we behold the oldest living trees in the world, primeval awe runs down our spine? We are entwined with trees in an elemental embrace, both biological and symbolic, depending on them for the very air we breathe as well as for our deepest metaphors, millennia in the making. They permeate our mythology and our understanding of evolution. They enchant our greatest poets and rivet our greatest scientists. How and why this came to be is what designer and information visualization scholar Manuel Lima explores in The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge (public library) — a magnificent 800-year history of the tree diagram, from Descartes to data visualization, medieval manuscripts to modern information design, and the follow-up to Lima’s excellent Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information. Donating = Loving
Nutrition to Live to 100 Over the past century, average life expectancy has increased radically in the United States. With this increase, it has become more common for people to live to extremely old ages, even up to 100 years. Many characteristics play into a person’s life expectancy. However, diet seems to play a larger role than others in terms of increased longevity and decreased disability. Here are a few things you can do today to be more beautiful tomorrow: 1. 2. 3. 4. Successful aging is typically defined as maintaining the ability to function well with good mobility, cognitive skills and mental health without chronic diseases. NEXT: The 5 Most Important Steps You Can Take to Age Gracefully Hadley Hickner contributed to this column.
This Is What It Looks Like When You Realize How Toxic Your Job Is and You Do Something About It | Adrian Hoppel Websites Deciding to Offer Web Design in a Gift Economy Changed My Life. Here’s How. Last weekend, someone who is very important to me wrote something kind about me on Facebook, and since then many people have tried to get in touch with me. Like, a lot of people. The person was author and speaker Charles Eisenstein, and the kind words he wrote about me had to do with the website I designed for him. Here is what Charles wrote: The fact that people have reached out to me from around the world, seeking help with their website projects, simply because of these words, is a great example of not only the power of social media, but the magic of working in a Gift Economy. Let Me Explain. I’ve built websites for people for about 13 years now, the first 11 of which were done in the typical “here is my quote, I need this amount in deposit, and at the end, here is my bill” type of model. I don’t know…what did YOU expect? I always expected something different. So, How Do You Do It? I Was Very Wrong. Every.
Manual de defensa nuclear soviético Este manual soviético ilustrado de defensa civil tiene todo lo necesario para proceder en caso de presentarse el peor de los escenarios que se pudo haber dado en la Guerra Fría: un ataque nuclear de los Estados Unidos y la OTAN. Es todo un documento de época y relativamente actual ya que fue publicado en el año 1986. Desde el punto de vista histórico quizá esto represente un lapso de tiempo corto, aunque como sabemos, este manual es de otra época. La Unión Soviética no existe más, aunque lamentablemente no podemos decir lo mismo acerca de los riesgos muy actuales que el uso de armamento nuclear puede ocasionar sobre la Humanidad. El actual stock de armamento nuclear a nivel mundial y las recientes pruebas misilísticas de los Estados Unidos nos hacen recordar lo vigente de este manual y cuan importante es tenerlo muy presente. Recordar lo actual de la información contenida en este material, y el video que publiqué hace un tiempo, no es en absoluto un ejercicio ocioso o meramente lúdico:
Infographics for Educators We live in a world of quick consumption, bite-size morsels of information, and visualizations of just about everything. All of this has become boiled down into the uber-popular infographic. They pop up from time to time on Edudemic and I often have a tough time determining if I should actually run versus another. I’ve been saving up all of my favorite infographics for a post just like this one. I picked each infographic based on the topic, breadth of information, and overall worth. The phrase ‘sum is greater than its parts’ comes to mind as each of these 10 infographics is useful in its own right… but altogether they’re downright overwhelmingly helpful. The Public Thinks Laptops Shouldn’t Be Allowed in Class Until High School Technology has become an integral part of life in most parts of America, but some people are still concerned about how we introduce it to young people. The Internet: A Decade Later The growth of the internet in the last 10 years is staggering. Our Future Demands STEM
Want to Go From MBA to CEO? Executives Will Need These Skills in 2039 Good news for today’s MBA grads: The share of large company chief executives with graduate business degrees has grown nearly 50 percent in the past 10 years. But don’t start decorating your corner office yet. There’s a lot to learn before you’re ready to take the CEO chair. Digitization and globalization will change industries in ways we can just begin to imagine today. Everything will move faster—people, teams, trends, portfolios, and competitors. Companies will find it harder to meaningfully differentiate themselves, and they will need to make complex trade-offs when deciding where to invest for growth. Future CEOs will have be comfortable working in a reconfigured C-suite. The average CEO starts the job at 52. Develop a strategy and execute it. Most companies don’t align strategy and execution well at all. Manage resources as strategic investments. Build strong, flexible, teams from across the enterprise. Be a great connector. Deploy technology as a competitive advantage.
Plant-Based Diets Can Remedy Chronic Diseases Newswise — CHICAGO—According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 63 percent of the deaths that occurred in 2008 were attributed to non-communicable chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, Type 2 diabetes and obesity—for which poor diets are contributing factors. Yet people that live in societies that eat healthy, plant-based diets rarely fall victim to these ailments. Research studies have long indicated that a high consumption of plant foods is associated with lower incidents of chronic disease. The article indicates that bioactive compounds in plant foods play a role in controlling genetic and other biological factors that lead to chronic disease. William W. About IFT For more than 70 years, IFT has existed to advance the science of food. Comment/Share
A Brief History of Anarchism The struggle for the common good has a long past. This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject them to a very reasonable challenge: Justify yourself. Humans are social beings, and the kind of creature that a person becomes depends crucially on the social, cultural and institutional circumstances of his life. We are therefore led to inquire into the social arrangements that are conducive to people's rights and welfare, and to fulfilling their just aspirations—in brief, the common good. For perspective I'd like to invoke what seem to me virtual truisms. A good place to start is with John Stuart Mill's classic On Liberty. The words are quoted from Wilhelm von Humboldt, a founder of classical liberalism. Concern for the common good should impel us to find ways to cultivate human development in its richest diversity.