Do Americans like candy? They like it to the tune of $20 billion a year! That's right- Americans spend $20 billion on their sweet little vices. They're out there night and day buying candy bars, chocolates, hardy candy and everything else that packs in the sugar.
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Halloween History gives you spooky details on the origins of Halloween, some of which goes back 2,000 years.
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This map made by chartsbin.com shows the percentage of foreign prisoners within each national prison population. Foreign prisoners includes men and women held in penal institutions, as pre-trial detainees (remand prisoners) or having been convicted and sentenced, in the world
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How do you measure the effects of the internet on the economy? A Google funded report published today answers this question and concludes the internet business in the UK made £100 billion in 2009.
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Do you know how the internet really works -- how you're able to read this article on a magical glowing rectangle attached to a keyboard?
This cheat sheet created by flowchart guru Doogie Horner explain the inner workings of the web to someone even less informed. via www.fastcodesign.comNote: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click Permalink below to download bigger image.
Earlier this year, the National Bureau of Economic Research delivered a piece of news that came as a surprise to most Americans: the recession, it determined, had officially ended in June 2009. At a total of 18 months, it now has dubious honor of being the longest U.S. recession since the Great Depression.
But how do Americans feel about it? Do the millions unemployed individuals feel like it really is over? And how do people – employed and unemployed – feel about its aftermath? mint.com compiled the answers those questions, and more, in their latest infographic.
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How does our diet affect the planet? And how do some of the different diets around the world compare?
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The Empire State really is something. The communities in New York have been doing remarkable things through the Pepsi Refresh Project, from major school improvements to veterans' support, and everything in between. Here’s a look at some the amazing things New Yorkers have done to make their wold a better place.
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A massive data visualization tool that lets users find out how the U.S. economy is performing, including breakouts on jobs, house prices, inflation and income. The visualization was designed & developed by the editorial multimedia team of CQ-Roll Call Group, the premier political news and information provider covering congress.
The data is collected from government and non-government sources; the interactive shows all historical data and is updated live as new data is released. It also features a glossary with sources and descriptions of the data and the data is available for download in Excel format. We think it's the first interactive tool of its kind to pair up this much national and regional/state data side-by-side. It's hooked up to a database and was built in Flash. All of the components, including the graphing and mapping portions, were custom built and are fully reusable APIs.via cqeconomytracker.cq.comNote: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click above link to play with this interactive tool.