Veusz is a GUI scientific plotting and graphing package. It is designed to produce publication-ready Postscript or PDF output. SVG, EMF and bitmap formats export are also supported. The program runs under Unix/Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, and binaries are provided. Data can be read from text, CSV or FITS files, and data can be manipulated or examined from within the application. In Veusz plots are created by building up plotting widgets with a consistent object-based interface. The program also provides a command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to its plotting facilities. It can also act as a Python plotting module. Veusz is written in Python. Its user interface uses PyQt (Wiki) and Numpy is used to manipulate data.Veusz is Free Software and is licenced under the GPL (version 2 or greater)
Precession of Earth’s rotational axis (The Earth's Wobble) takes approximately 26,000 years to make one complete revolution. Through each 26,000-year cycle, the direction in the sky to which the Earth’s axis points goes around a big circle. In other words, precession changes the “North Star” as seen from Earth. Nothing's fixed. Not even a fixed star.
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Obviously BP has lost a lot of money on their whole oil spill fiasco, but here's a different perspective on just how much money that is.
via www.visualeconomics.com
It seems that drivers in the U.S. are getting younger and younger as each day passes, and that's because they are! Here's a look at the age requirements for a license per state.
via www.theautoinsurance.com
Women shop for many reasons. Whether they are finding the perfect gift or buying groceries for the family, women tend to spend a lot of time in the stores. It would be a good bet that those women are shopping for others. If you think about all of the things women do for their friends and family, you may just realize why they are so good at shopping. So don't listen to complaints from men about women shopping; what do men know anyway?!
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Believe it or not, not every single vitamin or supplement out there is really worth investing your money on.
via www.pharmas.co.uk
Google compiles and holds vast amounts of the world's data. It's supposed to be totally private but sometimes governments need that information for investigations, and they request it from Google (or its subsidiaries like YouTube, Blogger, or Orkut). Other times, governments find a piece of data offensive or erroneous, and request that Google remove it from its database entirely. The search giant makes all these requests public. This is a look at which countries ask Google for the most information on its users, which ask Google to remove the most information, and how often Google gives information.
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