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Fascinating. Here is the link from Upworthy.
Thanks to Dominic Stucker.
The true size of Africa:
Poor Mercator!
Here is the Gall-Peters projection:
And while we're at it: Europe's a peninsula, not a continent. The continent is Asia.
“Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.” - Roseanne Barr
Hey, geography is useful!
From Maps on the Web.
"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." - Terry Pratchett
From Jennifer Veilleux. Here is the original photo and story.
Amen!
"'Diaper' backward spells 'repaid'. Think about it." - Marshall McLuhan
Claire Quiney sent this to me.
Here is the original link.
See the text below the infographic; very compelling.
How pop culture portrays a working poor life as uncomplicated, void of stress, pure, and moral.
Working poor is not a lifestyle choice:
Job promotions and performance reviews[1]
Or
Simple routine and morality
We’re oversimplifying.
Movie Portrayals of Poverty:
1) Deeply moralistic and contented:
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Slumdog Millionaire,The Son,Good Will Hunting[1]
2) In need of assistance from a wealthy–often white–character from higher socioeconomic status:
The Help,The Soloist,The Dark Knight Rises
In pop-culture and fashion:
Bohemian: pushes aside capitalist framework and stability for what they are passionate about.[1]
Bourgeois-Bohemian: mimic the daily “simplicity of working poor, without giving up financial stability.
Dick Haynes, President and Founder, Urban Outfitters:[1]
Urban Outfitters is for the “upscale homeless.”
Nothing says homeless like the $144 “Bitching & Junkfood Algardi Velvet Swing Dress”[2]
The “live below the line” campaign challenged participants to live below Canada’s poverty line ($1.75 a day)[1]
FOR 5 DAYS…
With the knowledge they can return to overblown savings accounts.
We think of working poor as a destination. It’s exotic. But that stage wears off.
1) Poverty shrinks your brain from chronic stress:
Long term stress shrinks the prefrontal cortex[8], insular cortex, and subgenual anterior cingulate[9] regions.[7]
All of which affect reasoning, decision making, emotions, and self-control.
So… you’re deeper in the hole.
2) It has the highest correlations to substance abuse, broken homes, violence, and health problems
For every 1 child abused in a house making >$30,000:[5]
22 are abused in houses making <$15,000
Those with only a high school education 12% likelier to commit violent crimes.[6]
For every one child who is stunted, or in the hospital, twice as many impoverished children suffer from the same conditions.[10]
3) Those living in poverty die earlier.
4) And for many it never ends (it's cyclical):
71% of children whose parents were born in the lower half of income distribution are upwardly mobile, but by much.[4]
Only 38% of people born into the lower half of income distribution make it to the upper half.[4]
Romanticizing poverty makes people think it doesn’t need to change. Don’t romanticize poverty.
Links:
"To me, one of the
most exciting things in the world is being poor." -- Thomas Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, whose personal worth was
estimated to be $500 million when he said this (early 1990s)
Wonderful cartoon from Joe Heller.
"Why would the heathcare.gov website be designed in such a way by an outside contractor? Because coders often price jobs by the number of lines of code they will have to write." - Daryl Rowland, after learning that the number of lines of code in the website is around 5x that of a large bank's.
From my lovely equestrienne extraordinaire, Mary Frances....So true!
"If opportunity knocks, and he's not at home, opportunity waits." - The Most Interesting Man in the World
"He has taught old dogs a variety of new tricks." - THe Most Interesting Man in the World
From The Daily Mash:
Peter Higgs, professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh, said: “I’ve dropped some serious Nobel cheddar on this bad boy.
“It’s sick.”
Higgs, who is currently deliberating between the license plates PART1CLE, or H1GG5, said: “In the place where I grew up, physics was the only route out.
“I saw neighbourhood physicists in their sports cars and designer clothes and thought yeah, I gotta get some theories.”
Rumor has it that Higgs has settled on the license plate 'HIGGSBOSOM'.
"And I thought that 'Higgs boson' shit was a chick magnet. No way, Jose!" - Peter Higgs
From the Washington Post, courtesy of Jennifer Veilleux.
Click to enlarge.
There are 60,000 in the USA. We've got some work to do at home, folks.
Check out the Walk Free Foundation.
"No pope ever condemned slavery." - Joseph McCabe
On the day before Colmbus Day, too.
But you gotta change the logo, Dan!
"We have denigrated the Native Americans long enough. But there are so many dickheads in DC that we have decided they deserve their own team." - Daniel 'Rich Cabeza' Snyder, owner, Washington Foreskins
I was hoping that Malala Yousafzai would win the Nobel Peace Prize, but it was not to be. Certainly the OPCW is a deserving winner, but the Nobel folks could have sent a real message to the world by awarding it to a courageous 16-year old girl who stood up to the cowardly Taliban by daring to promote education for females.
She floored Jon Stewart on the Daily Show the other night with her response to Stewart's question about her reaction when she learned the Taliban wanted her dead:
I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come,
and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.' But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.' Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.'
Good Lord, what an answer from an amazing, articulate, person! Sixteen years old! Watch the entire interview.
I've got another hero to join the likes of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jackie Robinson.
And she's a girl!
You go, Malala!
"We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns." - Malala Yousafzai
Interesting map. Here is the original, after which there are some actual statistics.
NoDaks - ugliest residents? C'mon, man!
Ohioans are the 'nerdiest' because they have the highest frequency of library visits. Nerdy? C'mon, man!
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." - Jules de Gaultier
Unless you've been hiding under a proverbial rock you know that a week ago today, Breaking Bad's protagonist Walter White got his just desserts.
Well, he also got his own obituary published in the Albuquerque Journal, his 'hometown' paper - really! Here it is:
"We tried to poison you. We tried to poison you because you’re an insane, degenerate piece of filth, and you deserve to die." - Walter White, talking to Tuco
Glad to see that the New York Daily News of my youth is still there, but now in color!
Gotta love 'em!
The Three Stooges ('Los Tres Chiflados' in Spanish) - keep on truckin', guys!
"Oh, you're an intelligent imbecile!" - Moe Howard
The cover of the current issue of The Economist. Can't see my Saudi buddies there. Must be my eyesight.
"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities." - Pope Francis I
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