Terrorism is politically motivated violence committed against the civilian population. September 11 is the biggest of all.
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When a typical rank-and-file employee loses his or her job, the most they could hope for is several months’ worth of salary and extended benefits — and that’s only in case they were laid off. Get fired, and you can hope to be given the opportunity to collect your family photos and lunchbox from your office space, at best.
But when it comes to those occupying the top-floor corner offices — companies’ highest-level executives — leaving a job, voluntarily or not, is often a lucrative career move in itself.In this infographic, we take a look at some of the largest and most controversial exit packages of the past decade. via www.mint.com
An animation of six months of 2010 New Zealand earthquake data. Blue circles represent seismic activity recordings. Each event leaves behind a small red dot to show the overall pattern. The animation ends a few days after the 7.1 quake that hit Christchurch on September 4.
This diagram from Wired’s September 2010 edition had special appeal. The family tree approach works well until it gets to the designer breeds of the past 20 years. Rather than chart an illegible tangle of crossing breed lines, the designers cut the Gordian knot and tucked the new breeds into the bottom right corner.
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Coalition forces military and police deaths for seven years of the US. military presence in Iraq.
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Crispian Jago makes completely transparent attempts to get linked from blogs. This time it’s a metro-subway-style map of modern science was created to celebrate the achievements of the scientific method through the age of reason, the enlightenment and modernity showing scientists of the past 400 or so years.
Despite many of the scientific disciplines mapped having more ancient origins, He have restricted the map to modern science starting from the 16th century scientific revolution.via crispian-jago.blogspot.com
It’s hard to imagine getting through one day without using a cell phone, especially since the device now doubles as a computer, planner and address book for many of us. But less than 40 years ago, the idea of a cell phone was just that–an idea. milo.com chronicle the technological innovations and improvements that have taken place in a few short decades to make the mobile phone the powerful machine that it is today.
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This Timeline of 20th c. Art and New Media was created to include relationships between art, new media art, science, technology, war and media theory.
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