Most people's two biggest regrets are not spending enough time with family and friends and not taking more time to travel. Epipheo studios created this video: To show you how Inspirato aims to help you shift your life narrative, making it one in which you spend more time on vacation with the people you care about most.
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Energy: you can't destroy it, but you can certainly waste it. That's what most motorized vehicles do, including trains. Usually, the energy generated when you stop a moving vehicle is dissipated as heat, and is lost to the atmosphere. With GE's ecomagination we've discovered that you can capture and store that energy, then reuse it - that's how our hybrid systems work.
Watch the above video to see a simple illustration of the physics behind dynamic braking. Keep in mind an object's force is measured in newtons, using the equation force = Mass x Acceleration.Note: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader can't see youtube video click Permalink below to see.
With the worldwide population expected to exceed seven billion in 2011, National Geographic magazine offers a 7-part series examining specific challenges and solutions to the issues we face. The magazine introduces the series with its January cover story "7 Billion," offering a broad overview of demographic trends that got us to today and will impact us all tomorrow. The first in-depth story will appear in the March issue, focusing on humans' impact on the planet's geology. Other stories will follow throughout 2011.
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The news about WikiLeaks is developing every day. good.is's latest infographic should give you all you need to know about the major players in the quest to either keep the site running or shut it down.
If you don't know what is WikiLeaks?. Sweden's public service television, SVT, is releasing this one-hour documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks. via awesome.good.isNote: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click Permalink below to download bigger image.
Apportionment is the process of dividing the seats in the House of Representatives among the 50 states based on the population figures collected during the decennial census. The number of seats in the House has grown with the country. Congress sets the number in law and increased the number to 435 in 1913. The Constitution set the number of representatives at 65 from 1787 until the first Census of 1790, when the it was increased to 105 members.
But how does apportionment actually work? Through animation, the U.S. Census Bureau helps explain how the apportionment formula is used to ensure equal representation for all, just like the Founding Fathers planned.Note: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader cannot see youtube video click Permalink below to see.
This year's movies have legitimately transformed Gen I's idea of what is creatively possible. To commemorate, She sifted through clips from 270 films that were either produced or distributed in 2010 and edited them into a video.
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Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions.
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Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns, tracing the path of airplanes, is beautiful! The video is the paths of air traffic over 24 Hours North America.
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Last week Chris McDowall informatics researcher from New Zealand hooked a computer up to the Twitter data firehose and, over the course of a day and a bit, grabbed every tweet that had geographic coordinates. I wrote a Python script to parse the 2GB of JSON files and used Matplotlib with the Basemap extension to animate 25 hours of data on a world map. The resulting animation plots over 530,000 tweets — and remember these are just tweets with geo-coordinates.
He recommend you full-screen this video, turn scaling off and high definition on. via Chris McDowall