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French Paradox

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:04:20 GMT

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11 Reasons Of French Paradox

So why their rates of obesity and heart disease are much lower than the USA?

1 Red wine

Red grapes are one of the richest sources of flavonoids, which may make red wine more heart-healthy than white wine, beer, or other spirits

2 Slow eating

When you slow down with smaller bites, you taste food more and are satisfied with less. It takes the brain about 15-20 minutes to start signaling feelings of fullness

3 Small portion size

4 High intake of fruits and vegetables

5 Processed foods

The French eat much less processed food

6 Shopping traditions: quality over quantity

It is common for French to buy cheese from the fromagerie, bread from the bakery

7 Home-made food

Home cooking provides a better control of food,

8 Self-discipline

9 "No snacking" habit

The French tend to snack much less than Americans, instead, they try to eat more regularily.

10 Beverages: water vs sodas

French drink a lot of bottled water instead of sodas

11 Walking - “naturally active”life

Tags: france, obesity, red wine, eating

Reuters Year 2007 in Pictures

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:47:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.news.com.au

USA ... the tiny feet of Amilia Sonja Taylor, the world's most premature living baby, after her birth at Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida / Reuters photo

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Austria ... women dressed as clowns in front of a work by British artist Damien Hirst titled "Iodomethane - 13C" at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, February 17, 2007 / Reuters photo

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South Africa ... surfers in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for the highest number of riders on a single wave at Muizenberg in Cape Town September 2, 2007 / Reuters photo

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Japan ... workers butcher a 10-tonne Baird's Beaked Whale at Wada Port in Japan, June 21, 2007 / Reuters photo

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Poland ... a combination of pictures shows two planes from the Zelazny aerobatics team crashing at the Radom Air Show, September 1, 2007 / Reuters photo

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Poland ... kayakers in the Rospuda nature reserve near Augustow, July 26, 2007 / Reuters photo

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China ... paramilitary recruits practice goose-stepping in Nanjing, January 19, 2007 / Reuters photo

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Tags: reuters, photography, world, 2007

Understanding USA

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:03:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: great site, great design, great infographics... suggestive and inspiring

Clip Source: www.understandingusa.com

Public information should be made public.

Making information public is somewhat less generic. This public means presenting, designing & structuring this information so that it is accessible, available, understandable & free.

Clip Source: www.understandingusa.com

The charts in UNDERSTANDING are pictures of numbers. Pictures help us to see numbers and to begin to understand what they mean. In these pages information architects have made pictures of time, money, distance, storage capacity, bandwidth by examining the numbers, and making them visible.

Understanding numbers is part imagination, part skepticism, part wonder. Read on, you’ll understand.

Clip Source: www.understandingusa.com

Tags: infographics, vizualisation, data, charts

Solar US Cities

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:24:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.inhabitat.com

12 New Solar America Cities Chosen

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 12 new Solar America Cities, bringing the number from 13 to 25 in total, and moving along the $2.4 million initiative to provide up to $200,000 per city to build solid solar infrastructures. The announcement came at the New Frontiers in Energy Summit 2008 in Denver, Colorado, which is among the 2008 Solar America Initiative (SAI) cities. The overall program goals are to facilitate adoption of solar technology by individuals and businesses and to make solar electricity from photovoltaics a cost-competitive energy choice by 2015.

The newly selected Solar America Cities are Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota; Orlando, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Antonio, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and three cities in California including San Jose, Santa Rosa and Sacramento.

Tags: usa, cities, solar energy

TerraServer USA

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:38:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.terraserver.microsoft.com

Click the green areas to zoom-in on the map.

Famous Places

Clip Source: www.terraserver.microsoft.com

Astrodome, Houston, Texas

B-52 Aircraft, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

Mount St. Helens

White House

Stealth Bomber at Whiteman AFB, Missouri

Fort Wellington Prescott, Prescott, Ontario, Canada

Clip Source: www.terraserver.microsoft.com

We have compiled a list of famous places.
To view a place, click on an image.
Click a link below to view famous places by category.

Tags: aerial photographs, maps, online databases, public free

Pedestrians Walk Faster

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:46:08 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Life in the fast lane 'speeds up'

Singapore showed a 30% increase, making it the most frenetic city

People are walking 10% more quickly than a decade ago, according to research in 32 cities across the globe.

However, the chief researcher told the BBC walking faster did not necessarily mean people were getting healthier.

"At one level, walking quickly is good, but if it's a way of life - if you're doing it simply to get from A to B as quickly as possible - then it goes with a whole load of other behaviours which are not quite so good for you.

FASTEST CITIES

1. Singapore; 10.55s

2. Copenhagen (Denmark); 10.82s

3. Madrid (Spain); 10.89s

4. Guangzhou (China): 10.94s

5. Dublin (Ireland); 11.03s

6. Curitiba (Brazil); 11.13s

7. Berlin (Germany); 11.16s

8. New York (USA); 12.00s

9. Utrecht (Holland); 12.04s

10. Vienna (Austria); 12.06s

Time in seconds to cover 60ft (0.02km)

Source: British Council

What speed says about us

It can lead to all kinds of things, especially heart attacks."

Tags: study, pedestian, walking

Interracial Rape

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:17:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.frontpagemag.com

The Truth of Interracial Rape in the United States

In the United States in 2005, 37,460 white females were sexually assaulted or raped by a black man, while between zero and ten black females were sexually assaulted or raped by a white man.

What this means is that every day in the United States, over one hundred white women are raped or sexually assaulted by a black man.

The Department of Justice statistics refer, of course, to verified reports. According to the Wikipedia article on rape, as many as half of all rape charges nationally are determined by police and prosecutors to be false:

Linda Fairstein, former head of the New York County District Attorney's Sex Crimes Unit, noted, "There are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen.... It's my job to bring justice to the man who has been falsely accused by a woman who has a grudge against him, just as it's my job to prosecute the real thing."

Tags: usa, race, rape

Interracial Marriages

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:02:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

After 40 years, interracial marriage flourishing

Since landmark 1967 ruling, unions have moved from radical to everyday

NEW YORK - The charisma king of the 2008 presidential field. The world’s best golfer. The captain of the New York Yankees. Besides superstardom, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter have another common bond: Each is the child of an interracial marriage.

Since that landmark Loving v. Virginia ruling, the number of interracial marriages has soared; for example, black-white marriages increased from 65,000 in 1970 to 422,000 in 2005, according to Census Bureau figures.

Stanford: 7 percent of couples interracial

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Ticking more than one racial category
The boom in interracial marriages forced the federal government to change its procedures for the 2000 census, allowing Americans for the first time to identify themselves by more than one racial category.

About 6.8 million described themselves as multiracial — 2.4 percent of the population

Tags: usa, marriage, races

Land Art - USA

Wed, 09 May 2007 21:35:19 GMT

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Clip Source: ludb.clui.org

Amphisculpture, AT&T Control Center - NJ
Beverley Pepper made this sculpture in 1974, a sculptural amphitheater, on a lawn outside a major AT&T office park in New Jersey. Though apparently unrelated to the partially below-grade sculpture, this 200 acre AT&T complex at Bedminster also...

Isla de Umunnum - CA
A number of outdoor pieces were built in this park by Heather McGill and John Roloff between 1986 and 1989, as part of the interpretive efforts for the new nature preserve at Elkhorn Slough, near the Central California Coast. "Isla de Umunnum" is...

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Untitled, Johnson Gravel Pit Number 30 - WA
Robert Morris was commissioned to create an earthwork out of this old gravel pit in SeaTac, by the King County Arts Commission. The four acre piece was built in 1979, and overlooks the Boeing Information, Space, and Defense Center in the valley...

Wave Field - MI
1996 earthwork by Maya Lin's and one of the few contemporary earthworks located on the campus of U Michigan.

Tags: land art, usa, land using