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The ever-controversial topic has become increasingly politicized in recent years, with thousands of different theories and statistics circulating at any given moment. It is in this polarized environment that Americans form their opinions of climate change, and its importance as a legitimate threat to the future of life on our planet. Here we look at how these views have shifted over the last decade, and where Americans stand today on the issue of climate change.

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Those are all human rights: education, healthcare (including low infant mortality and high life expectancy), and access to information (which is the other side of the free speech coin).

via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

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This article from the telegraph in the UK, how the availability of new sets of data has changed the way we live our lives.

Here are 10 (Shopping, Relationships, Business deliveries, Maps, Education, Politics, Society, war, Avertising and Linked data and the future) examples of data which have changed everything from how we assess wars to how companies deliver milk. The examples of data mentioned in this article are innovative, exciting and life changing, but the best is yet to come

via www.telegraph.co.uk

A snapshot of Earth's plant productivity shows regions of increased productivity (green) and decreased productivity (red). Tracking productivity between 2000 and 2009, researchers found a global net decrease due to regional drought.

via svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created by Zemi Media.

via www.scientificamerican.com
(click here to see the interactive presentation)

When it comes to American media habits, not even Bob Dylan could have predicted the digital revolution of the past 10 years.

via www.newsweek.com