Overall well-being can be assessed from the two headline National Accounts of Well-being indicators of personal well-being and social well-being, or from indicators which combine the two into a summary measure.

via www.nationalaccountsofwellbeing.org
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New York Times made an interactive tool called "Can You Fix the Budget?" you’re in charge of the nation's finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. Try to close the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030.

via www.nytimes.com
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This infographic designed by Gareth Parry from Auckland, New Zealand. He plan to make 52 infographics in 52 weeks. This (18th week) week's challenge is "Make an infographic about New Zealand".

This infographic answers: What's at the heart of New Zealand? What have people said about New Zealand, and how does that affect our brand? What is positive and negative, about New Zealand?

via Gareth Parry

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Maybe you didn't learn this in grammar school, but if you have a child, chances are you learned from experience.

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It stretches 5.4 million square miles. It's freezing, inhospitable, and devoid of any native residents. Why, then, is the southernmost continent at the center of such contentious wrangling? We take a look at who owns what in Antarctica, and why the battles have recently grown more tumultuous.

via awesome.good.is

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Real-time visualization of geolocated tweets around the world.

via frogdesign.com
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Restrictions on religious practice are far from uncommon in today’s world. The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life has found that 64 nations, about one-in-three among the countries and territories covered by its 2009 Global Global Restrictions on Religion study, have high restrictions on religion either because of  government restrictions,  social hostilities or both. And because some of the most restrictive countries are very populous, that means about 70% of the world's population lives in countries with high or very high restrictions on religion, the brunt of which often fall on religious minorities.

via pewforum.org

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How fast are Internet connections across the world? How fast are they in your country?

This article from pingdom.com examines the real-world connection speeds for people in the top 50 countries on the Internet, i.e. the countries with the most Internet users.

Average connection speeds

Worldwide averages

Connection speed distribution

via royal.pingdom.com

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via Audree Lapierre

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This map shows the density of nursing and midwifery personnel as the number of nurses/midwives per 10,000 population, in 2000 - 2009.

via chartsbin.com
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