How much sunscreen should I wear?. This simple question took David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer on a massive journey through the data, information myths and misinformation that surround our perception of sunscreen. He calling it the Sunscreen Smokescreen.
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If you're interested in the British Empire, you might like this video. It explains difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England.
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This infographic shows you what those 16 digits credit card numbers really mean? Contrary to what you may think, they aren’t random. Those 16 digits are there for a reason and, knowing a few simple rules, you could actually learn a lot about a credit card just from its number.
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swissmiss often have interesting, smart people come visit Studiomates (our studio collective) and they’ve been talking for a while that they should simply start a digital guestbook of all the fantastic people that stop by.
This week guest was David McCandless a London-based author, writer and designer. This is his virtual Guestbook entry on swissmiss studio-ideapaint wall. via www.informationisbeautiful.netNote: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click Permalink below to download bigger image.
There are long-term capital gains — and there are short-term capital gains. And then, of course, there are capital gains taxes. This is when the true fun begins: ranging anywhere from 0% to 35%, come April 15 each year Uncle Sam claims his share of your wins. It works both ways, of course: should your assets depreciate, you can sell at a capital loss and, in some cases, offset those taxable gains. mint.com explain capital gains and capital gain taxes in this infographic.
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To make studying the fundamentals of investing fun, this infographic explaining basic concepts Dividends.
Dividends aren’t that difficult to understand: they’re a part of the earnings of a company that is paid out to shareholders. Shareholders love them because, unlike a stock’s price, dividends provide a more stable income stream. But as with anything in the investing word, they’re neither 100% guaranteed, nor that simple.
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In the 21 century, we live a large part of our lives online. Almost everything we do is reduced to bits and sent through cables around the world at light speed. But just how much data are we generating? This is a look at just some of the massive amounts of information that human beings create every day.
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Have we become a society of whiners when it comes to information overload? The problem is that people don't have tools to filter information down to the most useful bits with minimal effort. The only choices we have right now are to take everything through our various media sources or shut ourselves off from potential opportunities. Of course that's a false choice because when we let ourselves be inundated by information we miss things anyway--time is the ultimate arbiter of attention.
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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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This informative infographic can help you learn to distinguish between research cloning and reproductive cloning.
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